The Greek World

Question 1

c. 2000 - 1200 B.C.

Answer 1

Aegean Age

Question 2

[Prominent] People groups in the Aegean Age

Answer 2

Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Dorians

Question 3

Greek “Dark Ages” (Date)

Answer 3

c. 1150 - 750 B.C.

Question 4

Hellenic Age (Date)

Answer 4

750 - 323 B.C.

Question 5

In which age did Greek city-states emerge

Answer 5

Hellenic Age (750 - 323 B.C.)

Question 6

Encompasses the Greek “Golden Age”

Answer 6

Hellenic Age

Question 7

Demagoguery

Answer 7

Selfish, unprincipled appeals to popular passions and prejudices

Question 8

Location of the Parthenon

Answer 8

Athens

Question 9

Rule by the “best”

Answer 9

Aristocracy

Question 10

Rule by a monarch (king/queen); may involve a royal family

Answer 10

Monarchy

Question 11

Rule by a few

Answer 11

Oligarchy

Question 12

Rule by elected leaders

Answer 12

Republic

Question 13

The Important contribution of the Greeks

Answer 13

Ideas

Question 14

Greece’ area is about the same size as…

Answer 14

England; Alabama

Question 15

Geographical features that influenced Greece

Answer 15

Mountains
Sea

Question 16

True or False: Greece had many natural resources

Answer 16

False

Question 17

True or False: Greece’s lack of natural resources led them to colonize

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Polis

Answer 18

A major town with its surrounding territory

Question 19

Aspects of Minoan civilization

Answer 19

On the island of Crete
Commercialized agriculture
Prosperous trade

Question 20

Where was Mycenaean civlization located?

Answer 20

Mycenae (on the Greek mainland)

Question 21

Cause of the Greek Dark Ages

Answer 21

Destruction caused by a Dorian invasion

Question 22

What happened at Marathon?

Answer 22

Greeks defeated an invading Persian army in the Persian Wars

Question 23

True or False: Athens was not a commercial and sea-faring community

Answer 23

False

Question 24

Greek city that practiced direct democracy at times

Answer 24

Athens

Question 25

Athenian direct democracy

Answer 25

Involved participation by all citizens (who made 10-20% of the population, comprised of men with 2 Athenian parents)

Question 26

Ostracism

Answer 26

Process [in Athens] by which dangerous politicians (after a vote) could be exiled/banished

Question 27

Greek city-state similar to modern totalitarian states

Answer 27

Sparta

Question 27

Who in Sparta performed agriculture, crafts, and domestic work? (Citizens or Slaves)

Answer 27

Slaves

Question 27

Outnumbered Spartan citizens 10 to 1

Answer 27

Spartan slaves

Question 28

Spartan name for slaves

Answer 28

helots

Question 29

Who comprised the Spartan warriors? (Citizens or Slaves)

Answer 29

Citizens

Question 30

True or False: Sparta was isolated and agricultural

Answer 30

True

Question 31

The Combatants in the Peloponnesian War

Answer 31

Athens and Sparta

Question 32

Winner of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 32

Sparta

Question 33

True or False: During wars, the Greeks did not call for truces in the Olympic Games

Answer 33

False

Question 34

True or False: The Olympic Games were originally for men only

Answer 34

True

Question 35

King of Macedonia (& Father of Alexander the Great)

Answer 35

Philip II

Question 36

During which age did Greek culture spread eastward?

Answer 36

Hellenistic Age

Question 37

Under whom did the Hellenistic Age begin?

Answer 37

Alexander the Great

Question 38

For roughly how many years did the Hellenistic Age endure?

Answer 38

300 years

Question 39

Who defeated Ptolemaic Greece?

Answer 39

Octavian/Augustus

Question 40

At what event did the Hellenistic Age end?

Answer 40

The defeat of Ptolemaic Greece at Actium

Question 41

Where Augustus defeated Ptolemaic Greece

Answer 41

Actium

Question 42

To how many generals was Alexander's empire divided upon his death

Answer 42

4 Generals

Question 43

The divisions of Alexander's Empire

Answer 43

1. Ptolemaic Kingdom - Egypt 2. Seleucid Kingdom - Persian Empire 3. Antigonid Kingdom - Macedonia [4. Pergamene Kingdom - Asia Minor]

Question 44

Greek beliefs/traditions shifted from mythology to...

Answer 44

philosophy

Question 45

Dominant philosophers who (contrary to their culture at the time) argued that truth is real and discoverable

Answer 45

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Question 46

Dominant schools of Hellenistic philosophy

Answer 46

Epicureanism and Stoicism

Question 47

Epicureanism

Answer 47

Belief that the finest pleasures are intellectual [free the body from pain & the mind from fear (particularly of death); avoid bodily excess; annihilationists; retreat from worldly responsibility; founder: Epicurus 342-271 BC]

Question 48

Stoicism

Answer 48

Belief that the universe is controlled by "something" [deterministic; goal: conform your will to the “world will” & accept your fate; urged participation in worldly responsibilities]

Question 49

Founder of Athenian Democracy

Answer 49

Cleisthenes

Question 50

Statesman who dominated Athens in its Golden Age

Answer 50

Pericles

Question 51

Most famous Sophist

Answer 51

Protagoras

Question 52

Famous quote of Protagoras

Answer 52

"Man is the measure of all things"

Question 53

Sentenced to death by drinking hemlock (poison)

Answer 53

Socrates

Question 54

Counseled to "know yourself"; said, "the unexamined life is not worth living"

Answer 54

Socrates

Question 55

Socrates' method of teaching [Socratic pedagogy]

Answer 55

By asking probing and penetrating questions

Question 56

Which school did Plato found?

Answer 56

The Academy

Question 57

Purpose of the Academy

Answer 57

To train the ruling class of Athens

Question 58

Student of Plato

Answer 58

Aristotle

Question 59

Tutor of Alexander the Great

Answer 59

Aristotle

Question 60

Methods of reasoning associated with Aristotle

Answer 60

Deductive and inductive reasoning

Question 61

Made rules for syllogisms

Answer 61

Aristotle

Question 62

True or False: Syllogisms are inductive

Answer 62

False; they're deductive