Deck 3: The Civilization of the Greeks.

Question 1

What were the causes, results, and turning points of the Persian Wars?

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Question 2

What role did religion play in Greek life?

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Question 3

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Knossus

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Question 4

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Minoan Crete

Question 5

How did the geography of Greece shape the development of the polis?

Question 6

What role did each of the following play in the life of Athens: male citizens, women, and slaves?

Question 7

Discuss the organization of the Athenian democratic system. Was it a democracy? In what ways is Athenian democracy similar to American democracy? In what ways is it different?

Question 8

Why did some Athenians see the Sophists as a threat to social and political stability? Were their fears grounded?

Question 9

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Dorians

Question 10

Discuss the causes and course of the Great Peloponnesian War. What impact did the war have on the Greeks?

Question 11

How did Greek males regard Greek females and what opportunities did Greek society and culture offer to women for self-expression?

Question 12

Why did Greek civilization go into decline in the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War?

Question 13

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Mycenaeans

Question 14

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Epaminondas

Question 15

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Pericles' Funeral Oration

Question 16

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Greek Dark Age

Question 17

What were the defining characteristics of Athens during "The Age of Pericles"? How did this period in Athenian history differ from the centuries that preceded it?

Question 18

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Troy

Question 19

Describe the typical Athenian family. How was it organized? What role did husbands play? What about wives?

Question 20

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King Philip II of Macedonia

Question 21

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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Question 22

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arete

Question 23

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metropolis

Question 24

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demos and kratia

Question 25

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Athens

Question 26

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Xerxes

Question 27

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Solon

Question 28

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Hellespont

Question 29

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polis

Question 30

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oligarchies

Question 31

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Peloponnesus

Question 32

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tyrants

Question 33

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helots

Question 34

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phalanx

Question 35

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Attica

Question 36

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Sparta

Question 37

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Lycurgus

Question 38

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hoplites

Question 39

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Cleisthenes

Question 40

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perioikoi

Question 41

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Socratic method

Question 42

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Marathon

Question 43

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the Acropolis

Question 44

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Aristotle

Question 45

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Plato's Republic

Question 46

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Socrates

Question 47

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Delian League

Question 48

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Thucydides

Question 49

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Laconia

Question 50

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Sophists

Question 51

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Aristophanes

Question 52

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Zeus

Question 53

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Herodotus

Question 54

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Apollo

Question 55

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rhetoric

Question 56

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Pericles

Question 57

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Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

Question 58

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Darius

Question 59

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Athena

Question 60

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Peloponnesian War

Question 61

Why did tyranny arise in the Greek poleis?

A)It was brought on by the people's increasing complacency about the egalitarian nature of Greek society.
B)It was a response to the cry for strong leadership from the established aristocratic oligarchies.
C)It was the result of fierce sectarian battles of competing religious systems.
D)It was the result of foreign invasion, mainly the Persians under Darius.
E)It was a reaction to aristocratic power and a widening gulf between the rich and the poor.

Question 62

Which Greek philosopher said, with regard to the polis, "We must... regard every citizen as belonging to the state"?

A)Socrates
B)Plato
C)Aristotle
D)Xenophanes
E)Pythagoras

Question 63

According to most scholars, what accounts for the collapse of Minoan civilization?

A)Pillaging and conquest by the Mycenaeans
B)Drought and famine
C)Widespread epidemics
D)Natural disasters
E)Ineffective leadership

Question 64

What was the agora?

A)An important legislative body in both Thebes and Athens
B)A barracks for a city's soldiers
C)A neighborhood reserved for the wealthy
D)An open space that served as a market and a place where citizens could gather
E)A religious district where temples were constructed

Question 65

Who was the English archaeologist who uncovered the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on Crete?

A)Sir Arthur Evans
B)Heinrich Schliemann
C)Gertrude Bell
D)Mary Leakey
E)Richard Leakey

Question 66

What was the main focus of Homer's Iliad?

A)The honor and courage of Greek aristocratic heroes in battle
B)The exalted position of women in Greek society
C)The absolute abhorrence of violence by the Greeks
D)The Greeks' rejection of slavery
E)The superiority of the military phalanx over the aristocratic cavalry

Question 67

The term polis refers to the

A)county.
B)police.
C)people.
D)city-state.
E)culture.

Question 68

A hoplite was a

A)skilled horseman.
B)soldier-slave.
C)temple priest.
D)heavy infantryman.
E)non-Greek merchant.

Question 69

Which statement best describes the Mycenaeans?

A)They were merchants who dominated Mediterranean trade in the fourth century B.C.E.
B)They were a warrior people who achieved their apex between 1400 and 1200 B.C.E.
C)They produced exotic articles of trade in the fifth century B.C.E.
D)They were a people dominated by a theocracy; they were often led into battle by their warrior priesthood.
E)They were a non-Greek speaking peoples on the island of Crete.

Question 70

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the Parthenon

Question 71

Which statement is closest to the Greek definition of a tyrant?

A)A cruel and oppressive ruler
B)A ruler who seizes power by force and is not subject to the law
C)A man of noble birth and great ambitions
D)A leader of a political faction or party
E)A ruler who is denied the typical high social status of his position

Question 72

Which location was the center of the Minoan civilization?

A)Corinth
B)Thebes
C)Athens
D)Sparta
E)Knossus

Question 73

What was the primary focus on the Mycenaens?

A)Agriculture
B)Trade
C)Intellectual pursuits
D)Education
E)Warfare and conquest

Question 74

Most Greek colonies can be best described as

A)sizable settlements that included agricultural land.
B)simple military outposts.
C)vast kingdoms in their own right.
D)sacred spaces valued primarily for religious reasons.
E)places of punishment for Greek criminals.

Question 75

What was a consequence of the development of the polis?

A)It fostered a sense of disunity among commoners.
B)It divided Greece into fiercely competitive states.
C)It discouraged the development of polytheistic religion.
D)It retarded democracy in the organization of civic governments.
E)It limited the development of Greek artistic and intellectual accomplishments.

Question 76

Which of these states developed in the Peloponnesus?

A)Thessaly
B)Macedonia
C)Thebes
D)Athens
E)Sparta

Question 77

The conquest of which region shaped early Spartan history?

A)Asia Minor
B)Persia
C)Messenia
D)Macedonia
E)Crete

Question 78

By the fifth centuryb.c.e., the population of Athens had reached about

A)20,000.
B)1 million.
C)250,000.
D)5,000.
E) 2 million.

Question 79

What was the fundamental institution of Greek society?

A)The hoplite
B)The polis
C)The phalanx
D)The agora
E)The deme

Question 80

Greece's environment can best be described as

A)a mountainous peninsula.
B)a vast, flat plain.
C)a bleak desert.
D)a fertile rain forest.
E)a land with many climatic zones.