unit 6 (study guide flashcards)

Question 1

Fortified hilltop with significant military, political and religious uses–

Answer 1

acropolis

Question 2

Temple in Athens dedicated to the goddess Athena

Answer 2

Parthenon

Question 3

Government where citizens have duties and a say

Answer 3

democracy

Question 4

Sacred shrine where the future was revealed

Answer 4

oracle

Question 5

Government where a few wealthy individuals held the power

Answer 5

oligarchy

Question 6

Writing system adopted by the Greeks during the 700s BCE

Answer 6

Phoenician alphabet

Question 7

People captured in war and enslaved by the Spartans

Answer 7

helots

Question 8

Mix of Egyptian, Persian, Indian, and Greek cultures

Answer 8

Hellenestic culture

Question 9

A greek city state was called–

Answer 9

polis

Question 10

A powerful person who gains control of a government through the support of the common people

Answer 10

tyrant

Question 11

Leader from Macedonia creates a Hellenistic Empire from Greece to Egypt, Persia and to the Indus River

Answer 11

Alexander the Great

Question 12

Estimated the value of pi and how to find the volume of objects

Answer 12

Archimedes

Question 13

Leader of Athens during the Golden Age

Answer 13

Pericles

Question 14

Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Answer 14

Homer

Question 15

Playwright who wrote Antigone

Answer 15

Sophocles

Question 16

Wrote The Republic about the ideal government.

Answer 16

Plato

Question 17

Studied History and is the source of much of ancient western history.

Answer 17

Herodotus

Question 18

Studied biology and philosophy and tutored Alexander the Great

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

Studied in the field of medicine and created an oath

Answer 19

Hippocrates

Question 20

Created the socratic method, a style of learning through questions

Answer 20

Socrates

Question 21

Proved that the sides of a right triangle = square of the hypotenuse

Answer 21

Pythagoras

Question 22

What was the cause of the Persian War?

Answer 22

Greeks expanded west while the Persian Empire expanded east. Persia conquering Greek cities, Athens aids the Greeks in Anatolia.

Question 23

What was the name of the league created by the Greeks to fight against the Persians?

Answer 23

Delian League.

Question 24

What was the effect of the Persian War?

Answer 24

Greeks won control over the Aegean Sea, led to the Golden Age of Athens

Question 25

What was the cause of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 25

Sparta created the Peloponnesian League against the Delian League

Question 26

What was the effect of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 26

Sparta wins (barely), ends the Athenian Golden Age, Greece becomes weak and vulnerable to attack.

Question 27

What was the name of the league created by Athens?

Answer 27

Delian League

Question 28

What was the name of the league created by Sparta?

Answer 28

Peloponnesian League