Ch 4 Study

The Athenian dramatist Euripides wrote

Socrates’ most famous student was named ____________________.

 According to the philosophy of Epicurus,

 During the Dark Age, some Greeks settled

 Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander the Great’s death?

The reforms of Cleisthenes

The alliance formed by Sparta to help defend Greece from the Persians was called the Delian League.

The ancient Greeks considered religion

The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that

The word spartan has come to mean

 In Athens, during the Age of Pericles, every male citizen

During the eighth century B.C., the Greeks adopted a new system of writing based on the Greek alphabet.

What was the result of Alexander the Great’s conquests?

According to the legend, the messenger Pheidippides began his twenty- six-mile run in Athens.

About 80 percent of the geography of Greece is ____________________.

 In 479 B.C., a large and unified Greek army

Who said that “the unexamined life is not worth living”?

The poet who wrote the Iliad was named ____________________.

 The most famous building on the Acropolis in Athens is the ____________________.

Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first

Two major groups that settled within Greece itself were the

The Peloponnesian War, which began in 431 B.C., was a result of

By 750 B.C., the ____, or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life.

Greek history was influenced by Greece’s

The conquests of Alexander the Great gave rise to the

The god associated with the most famous oracle in ancient Greece was ____________________.

The ancient Greeks strove for a kind of  excellence that they called arête.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are examples of epic poems.

The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was

At its height, Alexander’s empire extended as far east as

One of the subjects that Aristotle wrote about was ____________________, or the study of moral principles.

 The Persian leader who presented the greatest threat to the Greek empire was named Xerxes.

According to legend, how did the people in Athens find out what had happened at the battle of Marathon?

 According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person

The major gods and goddesses of the Greeks were believed to live on Mount Olympus.

 According to one story, a young Spartan warrior was told by his mother to return from the war

The teachings of Homer promoted

During the Age of Pericles, the governing assembly of Athens met every ten days on a hillside east of the Acropolis.

 After losing the battle of Thermopylae to the Persians, the Athenians

Which Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?

The tyrants of ancient Greece were

 Which of the following was the first Greek state?