Ancient Greece Test Review

After his death, Alexander’s empire fell apart because his _____________.

A commander at age 16 and a king at age 20

A body of land with water on 3 sides

Corinthian columns have _________ at the top.

What type of column is this?

A time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek areas

Believed that an absolute truth existed and that all real knowledge was within each person

Taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers

The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and goddesses by performing _____________.

What type of column is this?

Through mythology, the Greek people expressed their ____________.

A long poem about heroic deeds

Greek city-states were run by their __________.

Athenian laws were....

Most important city in the ancient world; established by Alexander the Great

Homer’s epic, the Iliad, is about

The Greeks performed both types of drama - ______________ - as a past of religious festivals.

In Hellenistic kingdoms, government business was conducted in the _______ language

Like a tiny, independent country

A traditional story about gods and goddesses

The Athenian assembly appointed ten generals, who

All citizens share in running the government

Main gathering place of a city-state

Who could be citizens of Greek city-states?

What a person leaves behind when he or she dies

What type of column is this?

Early Greeks lived by _______________.

The Delian League began as an alliance to______________.

The library here attracted scholars from all over the world.

Who freed Greek cities in Asia Minor from Persian rule?

Greek thinkers that believed that the human mind could understand anything

In a direct democracy, who decides government matters?

Student of Socrates who wrote the Republic

Who wrote the Odyssey?

Aristotle taught his students to follow the___________

Person who helped advance science and government

Admirer of the Greek ideas and planned to conquer Persia