Chapter 3 Ancient Greece Test Review

Spartan helots farmed their land as sharecroppers and had war declared on them yearly

They lived in a well-ordered society that valued conformity and stability

The chief characteristics of the Greek Dark Age are

Slaves in classical Athens worked as domestic and agricultural laborers

The civilization of Minoan Crete was poor and isolated and flourished after 1450 BC

Serfs in Sparta that were permanently bound to the land

In Sparta, free inhabitant, not citizens, paid taxes, performed military service

The Spartans made the army the center of their society because

The difference between the historians Herodotus and Thucydides?

All residents of a polis were granted political rights

rule by a few

Tyranny in the Greek polis arose as a reaction to aristocratic power and a widening gulf between the rich and poor

What is not a prominent feature of Greece's topography?

The difference in the political theories of Plato and Aristotle lay in __________ and __________.

The Persian war against the mainland Greeks...

"Arete" means

Athenian Democracy reached it's zenith under who?

The Athenian decision to invade Sicily in 415 BC

Open place that served as a place for citizens to assemble and as a market

Spartan women were expected to

The Myceneans were a farming people who achieved their apex between 1400 and 1200 BC

This helps people bring forth knowledge and to think critically

The negative impact of the Greek polis was that it brought all of Greece together

ruling over others but not subject to the law

The terrain in Greece encouraged the development of independant communities that fostered political participation

The central theme of the Odyssey is that

Homer's Iliad points out the honor and courage of Greek aristocratic heroes in battle

Greek city-state with urban and countryside, autonomous unit where all major political and social activities occured

The hoplite phalanx relied for its success on

The Minoan civilization emerged on the island of

The Athenian reforms of Solon included everything except

The polis was the Greek name for a county

The English archeologist __________________ uncovered the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on Crete

A popular Minoan sport was

Greek Drama...

The reforms of Cleisthenes are important because they formed the foundation of

heavily armored infantry soldiers who used a phalanx formation in battle

Meeting place on a hill where citizens can gather for political, social or religious activities

Each Greek polis had a population between 90,000 and 100,000 citizens

Who said, "We must rather regard every citizen as belonging to the state"?

Greek colonies were nothing more than trading posts

During the migrations of the Greek Dark Age, many Ionians

The Greek polis put a primary emphasis on cooperation between citizens for the common welfare