The Greek Golden Age CH 3

Question 1

Outraged the Athenian assembly who rejected it ____________.

Answer 1

This act of “submission”

Question 2

The Persian force was decisively defeated by the Athenians at the ______________________, ending Persian efforts for the time being.

Answer 2

Battle of Marathon

Question 3

Themistocles

Answer 3

used silver from a publicly owned mine to expand the navy

Question 4

Tasked with avenging his father’s lone defeat at the hands of the Greeks

Answer 4

Xerxes I

Question 5

31 Greek city states formed a coalition call the ______________ to resist the Persian Invasion

Answer 5

Hellenic League

Question 6

The coalition to be led by the ________________________

Answer 6

Spartan King Leonidas l

Question 7

Reasons for the Greek Victory:

Answer 7

• Greeks had better and more farsighted commanders
• Better armor and warships, that were more effective in close combat.
• The military Alliance that united against a common enemy to preserve their political freedom (31)

Question 8

Controlled by Athens, and consisted of some 300 city-states

Answer 8

Delian League

Question 9

Controlled by Sparta and consisted of over 50 city states

Answer 9

Peloponnesian League

Question 10

Slave about ___________ of Athenian society

Answer 10

40%

Question 11

The increase in Athenian naval power thus

Answer 11

promoted the development of a wider democracy at home but it undermined the democracy of the Delian League.

Question 12

Radical Democracy introduced reforms that challenged traditional understandings of society

Answer 12

expanded participation to the masses yet reserve select leadership to the elite

Question 13

Pericles, citizenship law

Answer 13

restricted Athenian citizenship to those whose parents were both born in Athens.
- law increases the status and desirability of Athenian women

Question 14

A covered walkway or portico, offering a protecting atmosphere usually located on the edge of the

Answer 14

Stoa

Question 15

Agora

Answer 15

the central market square

Question 16

Competitive intellectuals and traveling educators who charged a fee to supplement the limited education that most wealthy young male citizens received.

Answer 16

The Sophists

Question 17

Sophists taught
- was one of the most attractive

Answer 17

above all rhetoric

Question 18

The father of relativism is

Answer 18

Protagoras

Question 19

Socrates was the first Philosopher to make _____________________ the main focus of his teachings

Answer 19

Ethics and Morality

Question 20

Teaching style was a series of relentless questioning

Answer 20

Socratic Method

Question 21

Father of Western Medicine

Answer 21

Hippocrates

Question 22

Considered the Father of History

Answer 22

Herodotus

Question 23

Violent arrogance that, according to the Greeks, drove the competitive spirit to excess

Answer 23

Huburis

Question 24

Causes of the war:

Answer 24

• The Spartans were fearful of Athens growing imperial ambitions and the aggressives with which Athens dominated the Delian League.

Question 25

The Athenian Strategy:

Answer 25

• win a war of attrition using their superior wealth of resources
• avoid the superior Spartan land army.

Question 26

Upon Pericles death an Athenian Statesman ________ assumed control and promptly abandoned Pericles conservative defensive strategy and began an aggressive strategy to the war.

Answer 26

Cleon

Question 27

Following the destruction of the Sicilian Expedition

Answer 27

• Much of Ionia rose in revolt against Athens.
• The Syracusans send their fleet to the Peloponnesians
• The Persians decided to support the Spartans with money and ships.

Question 28

Spartans spare Athens, tear down the long walls and install an Oligarchy of Athenian citizens called

Answer 28

The Thirty- Tyrants

Question 29

The new regine determined to settle the internal strife (desire for revenge) that threatening to tear Athens apart issued first know ______________ in western history

Answer 29

Amnesty

Question 30

After the war Athens found itself right back where it started in 500 B.C.

Answer 30

Fearful of Sparta and worried whether the world’s first democracy could survive.