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20 Cards in this Set
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What describes Athens during the Age of Pericles?
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It had a direct democracy
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Greeks believed that the most powerful Olympian was
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Zeus
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Why was Darius furious with the Athenians in 499 B.C.?
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Athens sent ships to assist the Ionian Greek rebels against Persian rule
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The Greek philosopher Plato thought that
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people should use reason to organize an ideal society
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What group is credited with expanding the Phoenician alphabet?
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the Greeks
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The Peloponnesian War resulted from conflict between
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Athens and Sparta
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Who was considered to be one of the greatest Athenian playwrights?
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Aristotle
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What battle ended the Athenian domination of the Greek world?
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Peloponnesian War
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What did Athens and Sparta have in common?
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They honored the same gods and held the same religious beliefs.
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During the Hellenistic age, Euclid wrote The Elements, a textbook that became the basis for modern
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geometry
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Greek statues and paintings
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were lifelike but idealistic
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As a result of Alexander's conquests
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Greek culture spread to many parts of the world
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The rise of the Mycenaean civilization was preceded by the
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Minoan civilization
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The epic poems of Homer tell us about the
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lives of ancient Greeks at the time of the Trojan War
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What prevented the Greeks from building a large empire like Egypt or Mesopotamia?
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Greece is made up of isolated valleys and small islands
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The Minoans, who built the first Greek civilization around 1750 B.C., learned new ideas by
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trading with Egypt and Mesopotamia
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By 500 B.C., Greek government was ruled by
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oligarchs
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What were the criteria for becomming a citizen of Sparta?
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male
native-born Spartan over the age of 30 |
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Alexander the Great shared his father's ambitions to conquer the
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Persian empire
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Hellenistic civilization was a blend of
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Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian cultures
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