Hellenisitc Society

Question 1

The Greek city-states wore themselves out fighting one another and ___, the ruler of Macedonia, conquered one after another and took over their lands.

Answer 1

Phillip II

Question 2

Phillip II was killed by an assassin in 336 BCE and his son, ___, went on to conquer the entire ___ empire.

Answer 2

Alexander, Persian

Question 3

Phillip II death ushered in the ___era, in which Greek culture, language and thought spread as far as ___.

Answer 3

Hellenistic, India

Question 4

In 30 BCE, the Roman conquest of Egypt is generally understood to have brought an end to the Hellensistic period, but many aspects of its culture continued to flourish under ___ governance.

Answer 4

Roman

Question 5

Phillip II’s son had been tutored by ___.

Answer 5

Aristotle

Question 6

Alexander’s armies easily defeated Egypt and he was proclaimed ___.

Answer 6

Pharaoh

Question 7

At the mouth of the Nile River, he founded a city and named it ___ which became the largest city in the world.

Answer 7

Alexandria

Question 8

Alexander took the principal Persian capital of ___ and then set out to conquer much of Asia

Answer 8

Persepolis

Question 9

Alexander took his armies across the ___ River in the area that is now ____.

Answer 9

Indus, Pakistan

Question 10

Alexander died in 323 BCE from fever, wounds and excessive ____

Answer 10

drinking

Question 11

He was just ___ years of age at death and as a result of the magnitude of his military conquests, he gained the title “the ___”.

Answer 11

32. Great

Question 12

Alexander’s most important legacy was not political unity, but the spread of ___ ideas and traditions across a wide area, a process scholars call ___.

Answer 12

Greek, Hellenization.

Question 13

Another consequence of Alexander’s military conquests was the ___ became the common spoken language of the eastern Mediterranean area, and a new Greek dialect called ___ government officials, etc.

Answer 13

Greek, Koine

Question 14

Alexandria had a the largest ___ in the world and the largest ___ community.

Answer 14

library, Jewish

Question 15

It was in Alexandria that the Hebrew Bible was translated into ___ for the first time.

Answer 15

Greek

Question 16

“Yet the spread of Greek culture was wider than it was ___ as it generally did not extend far beyond the reaches of the cities.”

Answer 16

deep

Question 17

The spread of the Greeks eastward also created new ___ causing ___ to flourish.

Answer 17

markets, trade

Question 18

The Koine dialect of Greek facilitated trade as did the coining of ___.

Answer 18

money

Question 19

Hellenisitc trade networks extended into China in order to obtain ___ which became the most valuable overland commodity, and the major east-west trade route became known as the Great Silk ___.

Answer 19

silk, Road

Question 20

The Greeks had to import grain, which they paid for by exporting many things, such as olive ___ and fish. ___ were a staple of Hellenistic trade, traveling all directions on both land and sea routes.

Answer 20

oil, slaves

Question 21

In the realm of religion many people wee attracted to mystery ____ that blended Greek and non-Greek elements.

Answer 21

religions

Question 22

When Hellenisitc Kings founded cities, they also built ___ – staffed by priests and supported by taxes - for the old Olympian gods.

Answer 22

temples

Question 23

Worship of other goddesses also developed such as ___ the personification of luck, fate, chance and fortune.

Answer 23

Tyche

Question 24

The new mystery religions were not tied to a particular ___. Most taught that by rites if initiation, in which the ___ of the religion were shared, devotees became united with a deity who had also ___and risen from the ___.

Answer 24

place, secrets, died, dead

Question 25

The Egyptian cult of ___ took the Hellenistic world by storm and ___ became the most important ___ of the Hellenistic world.

Answer 25

Isis, Isis, goddess

Question 26

Definition: A system of philosophy based on the teaching of Epicurus, who viewed a life of contentment, free from fear and suffering , as the greatest good.

Answer 26

Epicureanism

Question 27

Definition: A philosophy, based on the ideas of Zeno, that held that people could only be happy when living in accordance with nature and accepting whatever happened.

Answer 27

Stoicism

Question 28

Aristarchus of Samos is often credited for arguing against Aristotle’s view that the ___ is the center of the universe. Instead he propounded the ___ theory, a view that was much later resurrected by Nicolaus ___.

Answer 28

earth, heliocentric, Copernicus

Question 29

The greatest thinker of the age was ___.

Answer 29

Archimedes