History Unit 2 section 2

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In an attempt to strengthen its western trade routes, Corinth attacked ___

Corcya

Athens's chief commercial and cultural rival was ___

Corinth

The Peloponnesus war began as a commercial rivalry between Athens and ___

Corinth

Greek civilization probably began on the island of ____

Crete

The term utopian refers to ___.

Cyclops

At Syracuse, the Athenian navy was ___

Destroyed

In Sparta, all authority came not from God but from the ____

State

Built on the acropolis in Athens, the famed Parthenon was used as a ____

Temple

Two famous Athenian playwrights were _____ and ____

Aeschylus and Aristophanes

Give the dates of the Hellenistic period ___

323 B.C to 31 B.C

What was a despot?

A person who came to power outside constitutional means

Plato believed an ideal society would be governed by ___

A philosopher king

The early history of the Greek peoples took place in the shores of the ____ sea

Aegean

After Aristotle, the seat of Greek philosophy and science moved to ____.

Alexandria

What was an administrator called who was appointed by the Athens council?

An archon

The term utopian refers to ___.

An ideal society

Plato's finest student was the philosopher ___.

Aristophanes

The attitude of athenians toward themselves And their empire can be described as one of the _____

Arrogance

The Socratic method was a form of teaching based on ____.

Asking questions

Salamis

Athenian naval victory

Which Greek city-state was Sparta'a greatest rival?

Athens

The two most important Greek city states between 700 and 500 B.C were ____ and ____

Athens, Sparta

Tell what led to Alexander's early death

Bad Habits of drinking and eating

In greek times the modern city of Istanbul was called ____

Byzantium

Aristotle was primarily interested in ____.

Cause and effect

From homer to about 330 B.C. Is known as the ____ period in Greece.

Classical

Pericles was descended from the family of ___

Cleisthenes

One feature of the golden age was energetic ____

Commerce

What kind of powers was Solon given to control the arguing facets of Athens?

Dictatorial

Pericles died of ___

Disease

Socrates died by ____

Drinking poison

Name the country where Alexander founded the city of Alexandria and state why the city was destined to be outstanding ___

Egypt. It was destined to be the intellectual center of the Mediterranean world.

The apostle Paul used someone of the terminology of Greek games in his ____

Epistles

Knossos was excavated in the twentieth century by the english archaeologist, Sir Arthur ____

Evans

Although it was great in it's time, Greek art and architecture have disappeared over the centuries, and we do not know what they looked like. True or false?

False

Although the apostle Paul was never in Athens, he knew about it from many letters he received. True or false?

False

At the time of his assassination, Philip was planning to give up his conquests and free the lands he had defeated. True or false?

False

Delphi was a major Greek shipbuilding center. True or false?

False

Most Greeks were monotheists they believed in only one god. True or false?

False

Philip always treated with great kindness the people he defeated. True or false?

False

Philip's Greek strategy was to march immediately into Greece and proclaim himself its dictator. True or false?

False

The best known oracle in Ancient Greece lived at mount Olympus. True or false?

False

Years of fighting the peloponnesian war strengthened the Greek states. True or false?

False

The arguments of Aristotle were used later in the Middle Ages by Thomas aquinas and other theologians to prove the existence of ___.

God

Unlike the Spartans, the Christian's authority comes from ___

God

Southern Italy and the island of Sicily once contained so many Greek they were called ___

Great Greece

Name the culture that Alexander the Great adopted and that most influenced him.

Greek

The massive ruins on Knossos were the remains of the palace of king _____

Minos

Who was homer?

Greek poet

Ephialtes

Greek traitor

What was the most important contribution of cleisthenes?

He advanced the cause of democracy more than any other Greek ruler by changing the basis of representation in government from family groups to territories.

What was the contribution of Anaximander?

He made the first world map.

Troy was located at the straits known as the ___

Hellespont

Spartans had native serfs which they called ____

Helots

The Greek historian who wrote a history of Egypt that is still in use today was ___

Herodotus

The philosopher Socrates fate was to be executed for ___

His beliefs

Herodotus and Thucydides wrote ____ that are still read today.

Histories

The Trojan war was best described by the Greek poet ___

Homer

The greatest Greek poetry is the oldest, exemplified in the odyssey and lliad of ____.

Homer

Marathon

Humiliating Persian defeat

The period in Greece from around 1100 to 750 B.C. Was one of ____

Invasions or migrations

Briefly describe the fate of Alexander's empire.

It was divided into three parts

Generations down to our own time have been influenced by Greek philosophers and the ____ heritage.

Judeo-Christian

The first Greek capital was located at ___

Knossos

From whom did the ionians learn to mint coins?

Lydia or Lydians

During the Peloponnesian war, the athenians massacred the men of ___

Melos

The greatest purely mental exercise of spartan youths was ___

Memorization

Demosthenes was a ___

Military leader

Clay tablets found in Crete indicate a conquest of the island around 1509 B.C. By invaders from _____

Mycenae

Bosporus

Narrow slit of water between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea

Two modern states characterized by spartan suppression of the individual have been _____ and _____

Nazi Germany, communist Russia

Every four years Greek athletes met near the west coast of the Peloponnesus for the _____

Olympic Games

The rule over the "Golden age" of Athens was ____

Pericles

Xerxes

Persian leader

While under siege, Athens was further seriously weakened by ____

Plague

The most distinguished pupil of socrates was ___.

Plato

The result of Pericles death was ___

Political vacuum

Two causes for Greek colonization and expansion throughout the Mediterranean were ____ and ___

Poor soul for farming and overpopulation

The Greek mathematician whose name is still used for a geometric theorem was ____.

Pythagoras

Plato wrote a utopian treatise called the ____.

Republic

Greeks turned early to fishing and commerce because the Greek soil was too ____ to farm

Rocky

name the culture that rose from the ruins of ancient Greece

Rome

Cyrus

Ruled the medo-Persian empire

The three premises virtues of spartan were ____, _____, and _____

Self control, modesty, strict obedience

At one time, Greece had colonies in ___, ____, and ___.

Spain, Italy, Sicily or Egypt

Why was Athens only a limited democracy?

There were slaves. Lower classes could not vote. Women had limited rights.

List some of the qualities and accomplishments of Alexander the Great.

Thinker, solider, athlete, attractive

Describe the goal of Alexander the Great.

To fuse east and west into one empire

What was the Purpose of an ostracon?

To record names for possible banishment

The lliad tells the story of the ___.

Trojan war

Heinrich schliemann, the archeologist, excavated ancient ___

Troy

Apollo was the Greek god of the sun. True or false?

True

Demosthenes was a great Greek orator. True or false?

True

Macedonia was a strong state located north of Greece. True or false?

True

Philip of Macedonia was a strong state located north of Greece. True or false?

True

Philip of Macedonia was finally able to defeat the Greek states and bring them under his control. True or false?

True

The chief god of all the Greek gods was Zeus. True or false?

True

The greatest example of Greek architecture was the Parthenon in Athens. True or false?

True

Thales, the Greek astronomer, concluded that everything that exist comes ultimately from ___.

Water

According to homer, Troy was conquered through a truck involving a ___

Wooden horse


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