stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
AWH Ch 05: Classical Greece Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
AWH Ch 05: Classical Greece
AWH Ch 05: Classical Greece
35 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
967 plays
Test review for our Ancient Greece test.
Flashcards
35 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
35
Answers
1
Who wrote the famous modern geometry textbook "The Elements"?
Erasthothenes
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Euclid
2
What ended the Golden Age of Athens?
The Peloponnesian War
The Greek gods
The Persian War
The Trojan War
3
A characteristic of classical art during the Golden Age of Athens was ________________
tragedy
emotion
philosophy
balance and order
4
Which government did Plato not believe in?
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Tyranny
5
Who preserved and spread aspects of the Minoan culture?
Trojans
Athenians
Mycenaeans
Dorians
6
Which of the following did Athens and Sparta have in common?
They were both city-states.
They were both democracies.
They were both leaders of the Delian League.
They were both strong military states.
7
In which form of government did social status play a role?
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Direct Democracy
Oligarchy
8
Who wrote
The Republic?
Plato
Thucydides
Socrates
Sophocles
9
Why do archaeologists think the Trojan War actually took place?
Discovered ruins are the possible remains of ancient Troy.
The stories about the war are too realistic not to be true.
Troy still exists today, but is called Istanbul
A German found the remains of the Trojan Horse.
10
Pericles' Funeral Oration was a speech in which he reminded people what?
How weak Sparta was and to fight to the end
How Great Athens is and all that they have as citizens
Athens wanted to take over the world
Athens needed to gain more colonies
11
Plato is well-known for creating the Socratic method.
True
False
12
In Sparta, women had more freedom, while in Athens, women were not allowed to participate in democracy.
False
True
13
Athens fought against Sparta in the Persian wars.
True
False
14
Where was monarchy the form of government by 2000 B.C.?
Sparta
Athens
All of them
Mycenae
15
Who was driven from Greece shortly before the golden age of Athens began?
Persians
Athens
Spartans
Macedonians
16
Who moved into the Greek world and reigned for about 400 years and left no written record?
Ionians
Dorians
Mycenaeans
Macedonians
17
What were the Persian Wars results?
All of the above
A divide between Athens and Sparta
A weakening of Ancient Greece
The formation of The Delian League
18
How did Pericles change Athens?
Greek culture reached new heights under his rule.
All of the above.
He built and improved Athens' architecture, art, and navy.
He made Athens more democratic.
19
The phalanx is a(n)...
dance routine
bird that rises from the dead
athletic event in the Olympics
fighting formation
20
Which of the following was NOT a reason why Macedonia conquered Greece?
Greek city-states failed to unify in time to resist.
Macedonia received effective assistance from Persia.
The Macedonian army was unusually well-trained.
Greece had been weakened by the Peloponnesian War.
21
Which event helped lead to Athen's defeat in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens had weak leaders after Pericles
The beginning of Greece's Golden Age
The formation of the Delian League
The introduction of the plague
22
The word “oligarchy,” first used by Aristotle, literally means which of the following?
rule by all
rule by one leader
rule by the few
rule by the one with the most power
23
What separated the different regions within Greece?
Trolls
Rivers
Dense forests
Mountains
24
How did Pericles increase democracy?
He murdered the King
He began paying the public to participate
He gave women jobs
He ended literacy tests
25
What was Greece's largest island?
Rhodes
Crete
Peloponnesia
Knossos
26
Which people emphasized duty, strength, and discipline?
Trojans
Spartans
Athenians
Persians
27
Why was Alexandria, Egypt, important during the Hellenistic period?
As a center of scholars, Alexandria was 2nd only to Sparta.
It became the center of Greek army and weapons production.
Alexandria's Ptolemy said earth was center of solar system.
It became the center of commerce and Hellenistic culture
28
Which of the following cultures was NOT represented in the blend of Hellenistic culture?
Chinese
Indian
Egyptian
Persian
29
The primary cultural characteristics of Hellenism are...
Legends, temples, and history.
Pyramids, ziggurats, and polytheism.
Christianity, Olympics, and democracy.
Philosphy, science, math, and art.
30
True or false, Athens was the birth place of democracy.
True
False
31
Which of the following groups fought the Peloponnesian War?
Greece and Persia
Athens and Troy
Athens and Sparta
Greece and Macedonia
32
What form of government was practiced in Sparta?
Direct democracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Aristocracy
33
After conquering Greece, Alexander the Great conquered which regions?
Anatolia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China
Persian Empire, the Indus Valley, and China
Macedonia and Egypt
Persian Empire, Egypt, and the Indus Valley
34
Alexander the Great's first victories against the Persians gave him control of which region?
India
Anatolia
Babylon
Egypt
35
A helot was literally a slave in Sparta.
False
True
