Ancient Greece Unit Assessment Review

Question 1

Why did Alexandria become an important center of study for?

Accepted Answer

medicine and mathematics

Question 2

What is a government in which citizens take part directly in the day to day affairs?

Accepted Answer

direct democracy

Question 3

What is the term for the is the art and practice of government?

Accepted Answer

politics

Question 4

What is the term for a legal member of a country of city-state?

Accepted Answer

citizen

Question 5

What is the term for a society organized for the purpose of waging war?

Accepted Answer

military state

Question 6

What is a form of government in which citizens have political power?

Accepted Answer

democracy

Question 7

What is the worship of many gods?

Accepted Answer

polytheism

Question 8

Where most of the Greek gods were believed to have lived?

Accepted Answer

Mt. Olympus

Question 9

Which war took place because of the rivalry between Athens and Sparta?

Accepted Answer

Peloponnesian War

Question 10

What is the term for a government in which a small group of people rule?

Accepted Answer

oligarchy

Question 11

What is the term for a government run by a strong ruler?

Accepted Answer

tyranny

Question 12

What is a government in which citizens elect representatives to make the nations laws?

Accepted Answer

Representative Democracy

Question 13

Where did Hellenistic culture come from?

Accepted Answer

Greece

Question 14

What is the term for a logical guess?

Accepted Answer

hypothesis

Question 15

What is the term for a hereditary class of rulers "rule by the best?"

Accepted Answer

aristocracy

Question 16

Where was Alexander the Great was born?

Accepted Answer

Macedonia

Question 17

What structure is considered to be the finest example of classical Greek architecture?

Accepted Answer

The Parthenon

Question 18

What encouraged Greek's independence?

Accepted Answer

the mountain ranges

Question 19

What was Sparta known for throughout ancient Greece?

Accepted Answer

military power

Question 20

What is membership in a community which gives a person civil and political rights?

Accepted Answer

citizenship

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