SS GREECE (Study Guide)

Question 1

What does Democracy mean?

Answer 1

Government by the people

Question 2

How would you describe the land of the Greek peninsula?

Answer 2

Mountainous/Rocky

Question 3

What is the Greek word for a city-state?

Answer 3

Polis

Question 4

How did Greece’s mountains affect their lives?

Answer 4

Only grow certain crops.

Question 5

What is a Government run by a single ruler?

Answer 5

Monarchy.

Question 6

Who was aloud to vote in ancient Greece?

Answer 6

men, must own property, born in athens.

Question 7

An _________ is run by rich and powerful citizens.

Answer 7

Oligarchy

Question 8

What is the fighting formation that helped Alexander expand his empire?

Answer 8

Phalanx

Question 9

Who started a school called The Academy in Greece?

Answer 9

Plato

Question 10

Who was the Macedonia King who took over and unified Greece?

Answer 10

Philip the 2nd

Question 11

Aristotle taught who

Answer 11

Alexander the Great

Question 12

Who taught by asking questions?

Answer 12

Socrates

Question 13

What areas did Alex conquer

Answer 13

Europe, Africa, and Asia

Question 14

What is the main market-place of a polis

Answer 14

agora

Question 15

What is the period when Greek language and ideas spread to non-Greek people of southwest Asia

Answer 15

Hellenistic period

Question 16

Who taught his students to use logic and reason

Answer 16

Aristotle

Question 17

Who wrote The Republic?

Answer 17

Plato

Question 18

What are the two types of Greek theater?

Answer 18

Comedy and Tragedy

Question 19

What did Socrates encourage his students to do?

Answer 19

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