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Chapter 5 Ancient and Classical Greece
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What was Alexander's lasting achievement?
Conquering the Persians
Blending of Greek and Eastern cultures
Conquering the Indus Valley
Conquering the majority of Asia
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Who held the most power in the democratic state of Athens
all people living in Athens
Free men and women
Free women
Free men
3
War fought between Sparta and Athens
Peloponnesian War
Persian War
Indus War
Trojan War
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A government rules by a small group of noble, landowning families
Democracy
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Monarchy
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At what age did Spartan boys begin their training
9
7
4
8
6
The author of the epic Iliad, which describes the Trojan war
Archimedes
Dorian
Plato
Homer
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He was a wise statesman who led Athens during much of its Golden Age
Darius III
Pericles
Hercules
Socrates
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Was a Persian King who was defeated by the Macedonians
Darius III
Pericles
Alexander
Philip II
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What empire did Alexander the Great take over with no bloodshed?
Indus
Macedonia
Sparta
Egypt
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What led city states to remove themselves from the Delian League
Athens was becoming too powerful
Athens began eliminating its democracy
Sparta began its own league
Athens was using money without persmission
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The most powerful Greek God?
Hercules
Athena
Zues
Achilles
12
A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives.
Direct Democracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Aristocracy
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GreekArt, also called “classical art” exhibits all of the followingcharacteristics except,
emotion
order
balance
proportion
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Who burned Athens to the ground?
Egyptians
Persians
Dorians
Sparta
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Where did the Greeks believe their Gods or Goddesses lived
Mt. Olympus
Heaven
Sparta
Greece
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Form of government with a hereditary ruler
Oligarchy
Democracy
Monarchy
Aristocracy
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How old was Alexander when he conquered Persia
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24
22
20
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The arrival of the ______________ caused an economic and cultural collapse
Mycenaeans
Dorians
Minoans
Egyptians
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Asignificant democratic reform carried out by Pericles was to,
increase the public payroll
Decrease the requirements for citizenship
provide lawyers for citizens accused of crimes
eliminate the position of executive chief
20
Several Greek city states, including Athens, formed an alliance called the:
The Great Alliance
Peloponnesian League
League of Greece
Delian League
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This city focused on becoming the most powerful military power in ancient Greece. (10secs)
Persia
Sparta
Olympus
Athens
22
A famous philosopher who recorded his work and was sentenced to death
Socrates
Aristotle
Karl Marx
Plato
23
What vital geographic feature linked Greece to the rest of the world?
mountains
rivers
fertile land
sea
24
Which was the longest war?
Trojan War
Dorian War
Peloponnesian War
Persian War
25
This fearsome formations became the most powerful fighting force in the ancient world
guerrilla warfare
trench formation
phalanx
Persian formation
26
Who replaces Greece as the dominant power in the Mediterranean region?
Mongols
Rome
Egyptians
Chinese
27
Hellenistic refers to
Athens
Sparta
Helen of Troy
Greeklike
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Greece was not a united country, it was a collection of separate city states also called_______
Neopolis
cities
acropolis
Polis
29
All of the following were characteristics ofAthens’ direct democracy except
an executive branch
laws directly voted on by citizens
political power limited to citizens
leaders chosen by the aristocracy
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True or False: Sparta depended on trade to feed its population
True
False
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______________, meaning "Lovers of Wisdom"
Socrates
philosophy
thinker
philosopher
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Duringthe Peloponnesian War, more than 1/3 of the Athenians diedas a result of
starvation
a devastating fire
battle wounds
disease
33
Mathematician and inventor
Archimedes
Jefferson
Plato
Caesar
34
Which is not a legacy of Greece?
Olympic games
Democracy
Classical Architecture
Spaghetti and Meat balls
35
Built between 447 and 432 BCE, was the great Greek temple dedicated to Athena
Partheeeenon
Parthenon
Sparthenon
Samothrace
36
__________ conquered Greece.
Philip II
Julius Caesar
Darius III
Alexander the Great
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What ended Greece's golden age making it vulnerable to invaders
Peloponnesian War
Hurricane Katrina
Persian War
Trojan War