Deck 4: The Civilization of the Greeks

Question 1

"Hellenistic civilization had a greater ultimate impact on Western Civilization than the Hellenic/polis world of Athens and Sparta." Discuss,pro and con.

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Heinrich Schliemann

Answer 2

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Question 3

What are the relationships between the accomplishments of the Golden Age of Greece in the fifth century B.C.E.and its subsequent decline? Was that decline inevitable? Why and/or why not?

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Question 4

Assess the influence of geography on the development of early Greek civilization.Was it the most important factor influencing this development?

Question 5

What were the chief features of the polis,or city-state? Compare and contrast the values,institutions,and actions of the city-states of Sparta and Athens.

Question 6

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Thera

Question 7

What did the Greeks mean by democracy? In what ways was the Athenian political system a democracy? How would Athenian democracy differ from modern democracies,such as that found in the United States?

Question 8

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Knossus

Question 9

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Greek geography

Question 10

Are the ideas and influences of Socrates,Plato and Aristotle still the ultimate basis of Western society? Why or why not?

Question 11

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Arthur Evens

Question 12

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Mycenaeans

Question 13

Were Epicureanism and Stoicism a continuation of "traditional" Greek thought (Socrates,Plato,and others)or were they a "new," Hellenistic development? Or both?

Question 14

What ideas and cultural norms were discussed and developed by Greek dramatists and philosophers? How,and in what ways,did they constitute,or reflect,the major contributions of Greek civilization to world history?

Question 15

Write an assessment of Alexander the Great.How "Great" was he,actually? Why?

Question 16

"The Golden Age of Greece was a direct consequence of the results of the Persian War." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 17

"The Greek contribution to Western Civilization was so great that everything since the Greeks is merely a footnote to their accomplishments." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 18

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Minoan

Question 19

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Peloponnesus

Question 20

Who was Homer? Why has his historicity been questioned? To what degree did ideas contained in Homer's writings influence later Greek civilization? Why do you think as you do?

Question 21

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helots

Question 22

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oligarchy and democracy

Question 23

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Athens

Question 24

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hoplites

Question 25

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tyrants

Question 26

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Darius and Xerxes

Question 27

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the Greek Dark Ages

Question 28

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Delian League

Question 29

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women in Sparta

Question 30

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polis

Question 31

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arete

Question 32

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Iliad and Odyssey

Question 33

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Greek colonization

Question 34

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-Ionians,Aeolians,and Dorians

Question 35

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phalanx

Question 36

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-battles of Thermopylae,Marathon,Salamis,and Plataea

Question 37

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Sparta

Question 38

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Solon and Cleisthenes

Question 39

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Homer

Question 40

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Phoenician alphabet

Question 41

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Plato's ideal forms

Question 42

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Alexandria

Question 43

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Alexander the Great

Question 44

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Socrates and his "Socratic method"

Question 45

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Aristotle

Question 46

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Thucydides

Question 47

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Aristophanes

Question 48

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Macedonia and Philip II

Question 49

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Hellenistic

Question 50

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Aeschylus' Oresteia

Question 51

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Pericles

Question 52

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Archimedes

Question 53

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Olympic Games and Zeus

Question 54

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battle of Chaeronea

Question 55

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Herodotus

Question 56

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Sophocles' Oedipus the King

Question 57

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the Parthenon

Question 58

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Antigonid,Seleucid,Attalid,and Ptolemaic dynasties

Question 59

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Peloponnesian War

Question 60

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oracle at Delphi

Question 61

All of the following are correct about warfare in ancient Greece except

A) the use of light infantry in battle because of greater mobility.
B) the use of excellent weapons and armor.
C) the employment of citizen-soldiers in battle.
D) a willingness to engage the enemy head-on, thus deciding a battle quickly.
E) the use of heavy infantry.

Question 62

Greek geography

A) helped to produce a civilization that was composed of cooperative and peaceful communities.
B) contained mountainous areas that impeded Greek unity.
C) prohibited a relationship with the sea that produced colonization.
D) encouraged industrialization
E) discouraged emigration.

Question 63

Mycenaean Civilization

A) first developed in eastern Asia Minor.
B) had its major trading center on the island of Crete.
C) was founded by Indo-Europeans who migrated into Greece as early as 1900 B.C.E.
D) reached its high point between 2100 and 1800 B.C.E.
E) was destroyed by the Ionian Greeks.

Question 64

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Zeno

Question 65

Foreign influences on early Greek culture included all of the following except

A) the adoption of new gods and goddesses.
B) the importance of Middle Eastern monotheism.
C) the importance of new myths.
D) artistic examples from Egypt in sculpture.
E) foreign motifs were employed in Greek pottery.

Question 66

Mycenaean civilization was characterized by

A) a democratic system of government.
B) an introspective commercial system.
C) a militaristic program of conquest, even of Crete.
D) disinterest in agriculture.
E) a preference for trading over political and military activities.

Question 67

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Epicurus

Question 68

The Athenian leader whose funeral oration lauded Athenian democracy was

A) Antigones.
B) Lycurgus.
C) Knosses.
D) Pericles.
E) Cleisthenes.

Question 69

Homer's legacy to the Greeks was

A) an accurate historical record of past Greek events.
B) important in inculcating the aristocratic values of courage and honor.
C) a foundation of egalitarianism in Greek politics.
D) actually written by a Phoenician trader.
E) the first work to use the Cyrillic alphabet.

Question 70

Which of the following statements is not an accurate characterization of the Greek polis?

A) It was composed of a central town or city, and the countryside surrounding it.
B) It was a communal environment of individuals, some who were citizens with rights, others who were citizens without rights, and others who were not citizens.
C) It played a significant role in unifying all Greeks throughout the entire region under a single government.
D) It developed simultaneously with the creation of the new system of Greek military organization.
E) It could vary in size from a few square miles to hundreds of square miles.

Question 71

By about 700 B.C.E.,which of the following replaced the aristocratic cavalryman in Greek warfare?

A) helots.
B) hoplites.
C) poleis.
D) mercenaries.
E) Macedonians.

Question 72

In ancient Greece,tyrants

A) attained power, ironically, by popular election.
B) always promoted the interests of the aristocracy.
C) served in a transitional role from oligarchy to democracy for many city-states.
D) were of peasant or slave origin.
E) were replaced by kings.

Question 73

All of the following were true about the Spartan assembly except that

A) it was composed of all male citizens of Sparta.
B) it was elected by the gerousia and the military commanders.
C) it dealt only with the issues that the council of elders wanted it to deal with.
D) its role was a limited one, since it could not discuss issues, but merely vote on them.
E) it was reserved for males.

Question 74

Greek colonization

A) resulted from overpopulation, an increase in trade, and a widening gap between rich and poor.
B) brought to an end the hopes of those who were prospering from expanded commercial activities.
C) ended rule of tyrants who had the support of those opposed to the oligarchic aristocracy.
D) failed.
E) extended into northern Gaul.

Question 75

Spartan society

A) secluded women and forbade them to appear in public.
B) was the first ancient society to attempt to save all premature and crippled infants.
C) adopted democracy a century earlier than in Athens.
D) was organized as a military state.
E) passed the Lycurgan reforms, which made all women voters.

Question 76

During the Greek Dark Age,

A) many Greeks left the mainland for Ionia and Aegean islands.
B) massive famines killed two-thirds of the Greek population.
C) the Persians settled in Macedon.
D) the Romans infiltrated the Peloponnesus.
E) Minoan Crete took over the Greek mainland.

Question 77

The earliest Aegean civilization was located

A) in the Peloponnesus.
B) on the island of Delos.
C) in Attica.
D) on Crete.
E) in Macedonia.

Question 78

The ultimate result of the formation of the Delian League was to

A) limit commercial opportunities throughout the region.
B) create a cultural alliance of equal and independent city-states in Asia Minor.
C) make Athens the dominant city-state in the region.
D) foster closer ties with Sparta.
E) strengthen trade ties with the Persians.

Question 79

Sparta was located in

A) the Attica Peninsula.
B) the Peloponnesus.
C) Boeotia.
D) Macedonia.
E) the Strait of Corinth.

Question 80

Cleisthenes

A) was Sparta's greatest legal reformer.
B) invaded Boetia from his secret base in Helvetia.
C) reformed Athenian government thus creating the foundation for political democracy.
D) argued that a polis was too small an area to govern.
E) was a distant relative of both Homer and Pericles.