Greek Final

Question 1

collection of separate lands where Greek-speaking people live. Includes mainland and about 2000 islands.

Answer 1

Geography of Greece

Question 2

Moderate climate promotes outdoor life. Greeks spend much of their time outside.

Answer 2

Climate of Greece.

Question 3

Indo-Europeans who settled on the greek mainland in 2000 BC

Answer 3

Mycenaeans

Question 4

Was a sea trading and culture stolen from the mycenaeans

Answer 4

minoans

Question 5

Fought by mycenaeans against the city of troy. Once thought to be fictional

Answer 5

Trojan War

Question 6

A blind storyteller who wrote the Ilaid

Answer 6

Homer.

Question 7

Greeks attribute human qualities to them

Answer 7

Greek gods and goddesses

Question 8

Rule by a king

Answer 8

monarchy

Question 9

rule by novelty

Answer 9

Aristocracy

Question 10

Rule by a small group of powerfull merchants and artisans

Answer 10

Oligarchy

Question 11

Rule by the people

Answer 11

Democracy

Question 12

Intorduces democratic reforms

Answer 12

solon

Question 13

Avoids major political unhevals through reforms.

Answer 13

Athens

Question 14

isolated from much of greece. Builds military state

Answer 14

Sparta

Question 15

Between greece and persian empire.

Answer 15

Persian war

Question 16

Sparta and Athens at war. They signed truce

Answer 16

Peloponnesian war

Question 17

Painting, Lyric poetry, Drama and tradgedy, comedy, and history

Answer 17

Greek/Athens art/culture

Question 18

Believes in questioning, self examination of values and actions

Answer 18

socrates

Question 19

Socrate’s student. Wrote “the republic”

Answer 19

Plato

Question 20

Questioned the nature of the world, human beliefs, and knowledge

Answer 20

Aristotle

Question 21

Who are the three major Greek philosophers

Answer 21

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Question 22

One of the world’s ggreates miltary generals, he created a vast empire that stretched from macedonia to egypt and from greece to part of India

Answer 22

Alexander the greate

Question 23

A fusion of the ancient Greek world that of western asia, northeastern Asia, and Southwestern Asia.

Answer 23

Hellenestic Culture