chapter assessment Flashcards
What did Homer write? What important purposes did his writings serve for later generations?
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey to set examples of great heroes.
What effect did geography have on how the Greeks related to each other and to the world?
The mountains and seas, these mountains isolated the greeks from one another so the became independent.
Why did the early Greeks colonize distant lands?
There was overpopulation and no food, and the lands that they colonized had good farmland and they also wanted to increase trade.
Why did peasants often support tyrants? What other groups supported them?
Because the peasants where in debt to landholding, the newly rich also supported them because they wanted social prestige. He hired soldiers and used fighting tactics.
What did Greeks learn from the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C?
That Persians could be beaten and gave them new confidence in their city-state.
What held the Greek city-state together until 431 B.C.? What happened after 431 B.C.?
The direct democracy held them together, and after 431 the plague happened.
What were three ways the Greeks expressed their religious beliefs?
They had festivals, the temples, athletic games and a sacred shrine called an oracle where the gods would reveal the future through priests.
What types of plays where the first dramas, and what types of themes did they have?
They were part of religious festivals and the first dramas where tragedies.
After Alexander the great died, why did his empire fall apart?
When he died there was no one to rule and the empire was conquered by the Romans.
Why do you think science and the arts flourished during the Hellenistic age?
It was a good way to describe the expansion of Greek language and culture.
