Social Studies 1111 Self Test
Proverbs 22:1
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
.................... is a collection of short stories that present moral truths and provide valuable character lessons.
Aesop's Fables
.................... devised the compound pulley.
Archimedes
student of Plato; personal tutor of Alexander the Great; Lyceum
Aristotle
introduced the idea of democracy to the Athenians; led dramatic government reforms
Cleisthenes
largest Greek island; where ancient Minoan civilization began
Crete
believed that money, pleasure, and prosperity were evil
Cynics
Alexander's defeat of the Persians and the division of his empire among four of his generals were both fulfillments of prophecies by .................... .
Daniel
The .................... League was formed by several Greek city-states and the Aegean Islands in order to establish an official contract for protection.
Delian
invaded Mycenaean Greece
Dorians
Corinthian, .................... , and Ionian are the three Greek building styles.
Doric
.................... formulated the lines of latitude and longitude.
Eratosthenes
fragmented peninsula surrounded by the Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean Seas
Greece
Alexander the Great's military conquests carried elements of _________________ culture into every nation under his dominion from the Mediterranean region to Asia.
Greek
Greece's single greatest contribution to the world was the transmission of God's written Word in the ____________________ language.
Greek
Koine, or common .................... , was spoken and read by almost everyone.
Greek
period from 1150 B.C. to 750 B.C.; few written records; chaos and violence of civil war
Greek Dark Ages
The .................... Age covered most of the Intertestamental period.
Hellenistic
Greek poet; authored the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
I Timothy 5:21
I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
first recorded language of ancient Greece
Linear B
.................... was conquered by Cyrus II, ruler of the Persian Empire, but he was defeated at Sparta.
Lydia
The Battle of .................... , in which the Athenians and Plataeans defended Athens and won a significant victory over the Persians, was a defining moment in Greek history.
Marathon
vast naval empire; large trade network
Minoans
Indo-European invaders from the north; settled on Peloponnesus; enjoyed hunting and war
Mycenaeans
The .................... War did not end when the Peace of Nicias treaty was signed; it ended when Athens was subdued by Sparta.
Peloponnesian
southern peninsula of the Greek mainland
Peloponnesus
statesman, visionary, architect; constructed the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens
Pericles
The .................... Wars began when the ground warriors of Darius I attacked and conquered the Greek city-states on the western coast of Asia Minor.
Persian
.................... of Macedon, who united the kingdom of Macedonia, was the father of Alexander the Great.
Philip
authored the Republic; believed that the spiritual realm was discovered through reasoning
Plato
believed music brought order out of chaotic noise
Pythagoras
The Greek victory over Xerxes I's Persian fleet at ______________________ is considered a turning point in the Persian Wars
Salamis
Athenian stonecutter and philosopher; questioned people in the marketplace
Socrates
operated as a strict military state; all boys placed under the control of the state by age 7 and joined the army at age 20
Sparta
believed that happiness lay in virtue
Stoics
fought between the Greeks and the city of Troy; wooden horse
Trojan War
To determine that which is good, we should always us the standard of God's .................... .
Word
at the center and highest point of every Greek city-state
acropolis
composed of a city and the region dependent on it; introduced in Greece during the Archaic Age
city-state
Spartan government; two kings
dual monarchy
Euclid, author of the Elements, was known as the father of ________________________ .
geometry
slave class in Sparta; under the Spartiates and perioeci
helots
Herodotus was known as the father of _________________ .
history
The five categories of Greek .................... include poetry, drama, tragedy, comedy, and history.
literature
Hippocrates, the father of .................... , developed the Hippocratic Oath.
medicine
Spartan leaders instituted ________________________ in each city-state.
oligarchies
method of learning about the future according to Greek belief
oracles
study or search for academic knowledge
philosophy
Many false philosophies focus on __________________ rather than on God.
self