Social Studies 1111 Self Test

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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


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