History Unit 2 section 2
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
