Greece Test

Question 1

The Greek Dark Ages

Answer 1

(1100-800 BCE) Trade declined and trade faltered.

Question 2

Homeric Epics

Answer 2

Examples being The Iliad and The Odyssey, used to describe social conditions of Dark Ages.

Question 3

Civic Virtue

Answer 3

Moral idea that the community was more important than an individual person.

Question 4

Tyranny

Answer 4

Government led by a person who had no right to power but has it anyway.

Question 5

The Olympics

Answer 5

Greeks from across the nations would gather here to watch sports, such as fighting, where getting anything but 1st Place was bad.

Question 6

The Polis

Answer 6

A political unit centered on a city and including the surrounding lands

Question 7

Aristoi (Greek Aristocracy)

Answer 7

The “best people,” the Greek elite that held most political power, usually hereditary.

Question 8

The Reforms Of Solon

Answer 8

Eliminated debt slavery, wrote laws on wooden panels to be hung up for all to see, taxes lifted on the poor, established the idea that politicians are temporary but the law is eternal.

Question 9

Cleisthenes And Democracy

Answer 9

Allowed all male citizens to vote in public matters and to be able to run for office, establishing democracy.

Question 10

Sparta

Answer 10

Military state, training began at a very young age, selective society that left undesirable babies to die, rival to Athens.

Question 11

Athens

Answer 11

Celebrated art, music and drama, birthplace of democracy, rival to Sparta.

Question 12

Hoplites & Phalnax

Answer 12

Phalanx: A military formation where men with spears would use shields to protect the man on their left. Hoplites: Men in the Phalanx.

Question 13

Peloponnese League

Answer 13

A meeting place for spokespeople of The 10 States to decide on how to go about matters, mainly war, with Sparta in charge.

Question 14

The Delian Leauge

Answer 14

“a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, founded in 478 BC under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.”

Question 15

Persia

Answer 15

Founded by Cyrus I the Great, the largest empire of the time, conquered basically all Ancient Civilizations.

Question 16

Cyrus

Answer 16

Founder of the Persian Empire known for his willingness to let the people he conquered continue to use their culture and just being peaceful towards them.

Question 17

Darius

Answer 17

Expanded empire further, roads and postal services, standardized currency, first Persian invasion of Greece

Question 18

Xerxes

Answer 18

Oversaw his Father Darius and oversaw Persian defeat in Persian War.

Question 19

Greco-Persian Wars

Answer 19

Conflict between the Greeks and the Persians around the 400-500s BCE that ended in Greek victory.

Question 20

Satraps

Answer 20

“The satrap was the political governor, advised and supplemented by a military general who reported directly to the king.” Satrapies were essentially the provinces these satraps ruled over.

Question 21

Zoroatrianism

Answer 21

Taught that the world was being fought over by Ahura Mazda (goodness, honesty, etc.) and Ahriman (dishonorability and dishonesty).

Question 22

Battle Of Marathon

Answer 22

The Athenians had won against the Persians despite the lack of Spartan help, popularized by the possibly fabricated story of the runner Pheidippides who was sent 26 miles to Athens to report the victory, dropping dead of exhaustion.

Question 23

Pericles

Answer 23

Instituted the payment of public servants and defined Athenian citizenship as being born from an Athenian.

Question 24

Leonidas

Answer 24

Spartan king that fought alongside his soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae in which all 300 were killed. Also the guy who said “This is Sparta!”

Question 25

Peloponnese War

Answer 25

The ultimately futile war between Athens and Sparta.