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Review quiz for Unit 2: Ancient Greece
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1
What land did Phillip II of Macedonia most want to conquer?
Spain
Anatolia
North Africa
Persia
2
What event at the Battle of Marathon made Pheidippides famous?
He was the Messenger that ran 26 miles to Athens to announce victory.
He was the son of the Persian Emperor Darius.
He was the Greek traitor at the battle of Thermopylae.
He was a Spartan King that offered to help Athens
3
_________ won the Peloponnesian War by teaming up with ________ against their common enemy.
Thebes / Persia
Sparta / Persia
Athens / Sparta
Athens / Persia
4
What was a result of Athens winning the Persian War?
a decrease in wealth on both sides
Destruction of Greek land and cities
Another war started immediately
A growth in size, population and wealth
5
The function of the Athenian Agora was to
meet and conduct business
Hold a Council with all the gods
Give athletes space to exercise
Defend the city against invaders
6
What was one cause of the Peloponnesian War?
Pericles tried to force direct democracy on Sparta.
Athens' grab for power made other city-states fearful.
Phillip of Macedonia instigated the war.
Pericles needed Sparta's military expertise.
7
Which BEST describes the main focus of Plato's
The Republic
?
The life & ideas of Socrates
The forms & reality
Justice & the ideal state
Happiness & eudaimonia
8
A major cause of the Persian War was...
Sparta's militaristic power threatened other city states
The Greeks disliked the Persian way of ruling
Athens was taking money from the Delian League
The Greeks supported the Ionian Revolt in Anatolia
9
Alexander the Great spread ______ culture by building cities, colonies, & spreading Greek language.
Hellespont
Egyptian
Persian
Hellenistic
10
The Classical Age of Athens dates from the end of the Persian wars to the
The Conquest of Persia
The Collapse of the Athenian Empire
The Conquest of Alexander
The Start of the Peloponnesian War
11
Who could vote in Ancient Athens?
male & female citizens
all adult males
only male citizens
all adults (slave or free)
12
What was the lasting impact of Alexander the Great's conquests?
use of army tactics in the Mongol invasion
spread of Greek culture
Alexandria became the largest city in Persia
spread of Christianity
13
What was Athens strategy to try to win the Peloponnesian War?
Get Persia to attack Sparta
All were strategies used by Athens
Stay behind their long walls & wait out the Spartan invasion
Force Sparta in a full out battle
14
_______ was a famous mathematician who is credited with determining the value of PI.
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Euclid
Hippocrates
15
How did Athens begin to lose its power during the Peloponnesian war?
Sparta demolished them
There was a plague
The navy blew up
There was a revolution over democracy
16
Which famous ancient Greek was known as the "Father of History"?
Herodotus
Cleisthenes
Plato
Socrates
17
What was Athena's "avian" symbol of wisdom and knowlege....
moon
cow
owl
dove
18
True or False: The Greek gods had human weaknesses and character traits.
False
True
19
Dionysus was the god of
wine and fertility
agriculture
the sun and music
war
20
How did colonies affect ancient Greece?
they contributed key trade & farmland
they forced settlers to lose their rights as Greeks
they led the Greeks to adopt Asian culture
they caused village cultures to develop in different ways
21
What is a polis?
A Greek custom
A Greek city-state
A Greek baby
A Greek language
22
Apollo is the god of ________.
Poetry
All of the above
The sun
Music
23
Which characteristic of Hellenistic art made it different from earlier Greek art?
It was less idealistic and more realistic.
It celebrated the beauty of the human form
It focused mostly on kings and nobles.
It focused mostly on religious subjects.
24
One of the original western philosophers, he was put to death by Athens for corrupting youth?
Plato
Homer
Socrates
Aristotle
25
Plays were presented at The Festival of the god __________
Dionysus
Athena
Sophocles
Zeus
26
The reforms instituted by _______ created the first successful democracy in ancient Athens.
Herodotus
Alexander the Great
Thucydides
Cleisthenes
27
The Golden Age of Athens happened under the rule of....
Leonidis
Pericles
Odysseus
Cleisthenes
28
Greek mathematician Euclid is most famous for....
Being the "Father of Geometry"
Creating the Pythagorean theorem
Devising the Fibonacci sequence
Discovering the value of Pi
29
Which city-state did Alexander the Great come from?
Sparta
Macedonia
Athens
Thebes
30
Because of its geography, many ancient Greeks were best suited to be _________.
nomads
farmers
shepherds
sailors
31
What advantage did the Strait of Salamis offer to the Greeks?
It was prone to storms which wrecked the Persian ships.
It allowed Greeks to shoot missiles from the cliffs.
The gods helped the Greeks
It created a bottleneck to negate the larger Persian fleet.
32
What type of government was Sparta?
Monarchy
Tyranny
Democracy
Oligarchy
33
What is a formal quality associated with classical Greek sculpture?
Idealized
Marble
Stylized
Linear
34
What was the main purpose of Greek mythology?
Entertain people
Scare people into being good
To explain why things are the way they are in the world
To help people feel special and important
35
What would have been the key goal of education in Athens?
Continue the oligarchy
Have fair education for boys and girls
Create well-rounded Athenian citizens
Create a strong military
36
Homer's Iliad was focused on which event in ancient Greek history?
Persian Wars
Peloponnesian War
Alexander the Great's Empire
Trojan War
37
How did geography discourage Greek unity?
The Greeks fought often over common land
Mountians and seas kept Greek communities independent
The seas made it easy for Greeks to unite.
Greeks competed with one another because of rocky soil
38
Which of the following statements about the ancient Greeks is accurate?
Minoa conquered Macedonia
Mycenae conquered Minoa
Athens conquered Sparta
Sparta conquered Thebes
39
The conflict(s) between Athens & Sparta was called the ________________.
Peloponnesian War
Persian Wars
Punic Wars
Trojan War
40
This famous Greek was the student of Plato, and was the tutor of Alexander the Great.
Thucycides
Cleisthenes
Socrates
Aristotle
