Deck 4: The Hellenistic World

Question 1

define the following term:
Macedonia

Answer 1

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Question 2

define the following term:
Philip II

Answer 2

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Question 3

define the following term:
Philippics

Answer 3

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Question 4

Compare and contrast the artistic, literary, and scientific achievements of the Hellenistic age with those of the classical age. How do you account for the differences?

Question 5

What were the major philosophies of the Hellenistic period? How did they differ from the philosophies of Classical Greece?

Question 6

Discuss the major characteristics of Hellenistic cities. How did these urban centers differ from the Greek city-states of the classical era?

Question 7

What made Alexander such a successful general? Give examples from his military campaigns.

Question 8

define the following term:
hegemon

Question 9

Why is Alexander the Great considered to be the first true super-hero of Western Civilization? Is that reputation justified? Why and or why not?

Question 10

define the following term:
Corinthian League

Question 11

In what ways did the life and legacy of Alexander of Macedonia both initiate a break with the past promote a continuation of earlier values and practices?

Question 12

Why did Alexander of Macedonia's empire not last beyond his lifetime?

Question 13

To what extent was Hellenistic civilization a hybrid of the cultures of various Greek poleis and traditions from farther east?

Question 14

How did Greek religious practices in the Hellenistic era differ from those in the classical era?

Question 15

Did women's lives improve during the Hellenistic Era? Why or why not?

Question 16

define the following term:
Hellenistic

Question 17

define the following term:
Battle of Chaeronea

Question 18

Discuss the rise of Macedonia and its successful take-over of the Greek world, in regards to both Macedonian strengths and Greek weaknesses.

Question 19

define the following term:
Isocrates

Question 20

define the following term:
Demosthenes

Question 21

define the following term:
Antigonids

Question 22

define the following term:
Hellenistic cities

Question 23

define the following term:
Alexander the Great

Question 24

define the following term:
Darius III

Question 25

define the following term:
Celts

Question 26

define the following term:
Theocritus

Question 27

define the following term:
Menander

Question 28

define the following term:
Seleucids

Question 29

define the following term:
Battle of Gaugamela

Question 30

define the following term:
Hellenistic kingdoms

Question 31

define the following term:
Battles of the Granicus River and Issus

Question 32

define the following term:
Mauryan Empire

Question 33

define the following term:
Porus and the Battle of Hydaspes

Question 34

define the following term:
seige of Tyre

Question 35

define the following term:
gymnasium

Question 36

define the following term:
upper-class women in Hellenistic society

Question 37

define the following term:
Cleopatra VII

Question 38

define the following term:
Attalids and Pergamum

Question 39

define the following term:
Ptolemy II and Arsinoë II

Question 40

define the following term:
Alexandria(s)

Question 41

define the following term:
Epicurus and Epicureanism

Question 42

define the following term:
Polybius

Question 43

define the following term:
mystery cults

Question 44

define the following term:
Stoicism

Question 45

define the following term:
cults of Eleusis and Isis

Question 46

define the following term:
Hippocrates

Question 47

define the following term:
"A Gaul and His Wife"

Question 48

define the following term:
Archimedes

Question 49

define the following term:
Judas Maccabaeus

Question 50

define the following term:
Zeno

Question 51

define the following term:
"Laocoön and His Sons"

Question 52

define the following term:
Eratosthenes

Question 53

define the following term:
Antiochus IV

Question 54

define the following term:
syncretism

Question 55

define the following term:
"Eureka!"

Question 56

define the following term:
Aristarchus of Samos

Question 57

define the following term:
Euclid

Question 58

define the following term:
the Gandhara Buddhist statues

Question 59

define the following term:
Hanukkah

Question 60

define the following term:
the library in Alexandria

Question 61

Alexander the Great's troops rebelled when he made the decision to invade and capture

A)Arabia.
B)Pergamum.
C)India.
D)Cochin.
E)Bactria.

Question 62

The famous Indian ruler who sent Buddhist missionaries to Greek rulers was

A)Akbar.
B)Asoka.
C)Chandragupta.
D)Shiva.
E)Bodhisattva.

Question 63

At the Battle of Chaeronea (338 B.C.E.), Philip II

A)was killed, leaving Alexander in control of Greece.
B)drove the Persian navy out of the Aegean Sea.
C)unified Macedon for the first time in its history.
D)suffered a humiliating defeat.
E)defeated the Greek poleis, ending their independence.

Question 64

Which of the following statements concerning the emergence of the Macedonians is correct ?

A)The early Macedonians were greatly admired by the Greeks for their cultural achievements.
B)The Macedonians were probably not Greek.
C)The Macedonians organized themselves in city-states like their southern Greek neighbors.
D)The Greeks prohibited them from participating in the Olympic Games.
E)Macedonia emerged as an important kingdom during the Greek Archaic Age.

Question 65

Which of the following was Alexander's last battle against the Persian king Darius?

A)Issus.
B)Tyre.
C)Gordium.
D)Guagamela.
E)Gaza.

Question 66

Alexander the Great's conquests in Asia occurred despite

A)his lack of military expertise prior to his father's assassination.
B)the Persian king Darius III's refusal to make any peace settlements and resort to guerilla warfare.
C)the lack of a strong cavalry and inability to capture Egypt.
D)his eventual difficulties in convincing his troops to fight so far from home.
E)violent opposition back in Greece by most of the city-states.

Question 67

At the Battle of Gaugamela,

A)Alexander's men heavily outnumbered the Persian forces.
B)Alexander broke through the center of the Persian line with his heavy cavalry, followed by the infantry.
C)The Persians were unable to use their war chariots because the narrow battlefield limited their maneuverability.
D)Persian king Darius was killed at the end of the battle.
E)Alexander was forced to retreat back to Susa after his defeat.

Question 68

Which of the following Hellenistic kingdoms was the largest and controlled much of the old Persian Empire?

A)Antigonid.
B)Ptolemaic.
C)Seleucid.
D)Attalid.
E)Hashemite.

Question 69

Which of the following was not one of Philip II's military reforms?

A)He abandoned the phalanx formation as too ineffective and inefficient.
B)He made use of cavalry contingents in breaking the opposing line of battle.
C)His warriors used a longer thrusting spear, double that of the Greek hoplite.
D)He made use of engineers who designed catapults to destroy enemy fortifications.
E)His infantrymen carried smaller shields and shorter swords than Greek hoplites.

Question 70

The Hellenistic era describes an age that saw

A)the extension and imitation of Greek culture throughout the ancient Near East.
B)the absence of autocratic power for nearly three centuries.
C)the disappearance of a Greek cultural legacy until Roman times.
D)Alexander's successors maintain a united empire until Roman times.
E)the disappearance of Greek religious beliefs and practices.

Question 71

Philip II planned to defeat the Greek cities by

A)buying their submission.
B)undermining their morale with propaganda.
C)breaking up their hoplite formations with cavalry.
D)wearing them down by pinprick attacks.
E)destroying their walls with heavy cannons.

Question 72

Isocrates

A)condemned Philip II for his aggression against the Greek city states.
B)agreed with Demosthenes that Alexander would be an improvement over Philip II.
C)hoped that Philip would unite the Greek world in a campaign against Persia.
D)was put to death for criticizing the gods.
E)supported Alexander of Macedonia in his struggle against his father, Philip.

Question 73

The Greek general who took Egypt after Alexander's death and converted it into the longest-lasting Hellenistic kingdom was

A)Ptolemy.
B)Brassius.
C)Seleucis.
D)Antigonis.
E)Bucephalus.

Question 74

The Hellenistic states in the centuries after Alexander the Great

A)became despotic monarchies.
B)rarely fought amongst themselves.
C)included large numbers of non-Greeks in leadership positions.
D)showed little innovation in their armies and military institutions.
E)all disappeared by the second century B.C.E.

Question 75

The Antigonid kingdom was located in

A)Palestine.
B)Egypt.
C)Macedonia.
D)Syria and Mesopotamia.
E)India.

Question 76

In his Philippics , Demosthenes

A)portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Greek freedom.
B)foresaw a revival of Athenian culture under the leadership of Philip II.
C)glorified the Macedonian armies as the saviors of Greece.
D)praised Philip II for freeing the Ionian cities.
E)portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Persia.

Question 77

Scholarship on the legacy of Alexander the Great has suggested he sought

A)to emulate the Homeric warrior-hero Achilles.
B)to create a new ruling class in which only Greeks would attain positions of political authority.
C)to refuse divine status, despite requests by his subjects to vote him a living god.
D)encouraged rural development and prohibited the establishment of new cities for fear of rebellion by newly conquered peoples.
E)All of the above.

Question 78

Alexander's military success against the Persians was in part attributable to

A)the chronic weakness of the Persian Empire.
B)numerically superior forces.
C)the role of Alexander's cavalry as a strike force.
D)troop loyalty in all campaigns.
E)his corps of archers.

Question 79

define the following term:
Herophilus and Erasistratus

Question 80

Shortly after taking the throne, Alexander dealt swiftly and harshly with a Greek rebellion by sacking the city of

A)Athens.
B)Thebes.
C)Sparta.
D)Corinth.
E)all of the above.