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20 Cards in this Set
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In Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the ancient Greeks were portrayed as
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experts and fearless seafarers
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Which of the following is true with regard to Minoan and Mycenaean societies?
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Both societies built palaces
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By “tyrants” the Greeks meant
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ambitious politicians who gained power by irregular means.
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Which of the following was part of Spartan life?
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Boys were taken away from their mothers for military training.
Young married women did not live with their husbands. The helots were unfree servants of the Spartan state. Vigorous physical exercise for girls was encouraged, in hopes that they would bear strong children. |
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Which of the following was an Athenian political leader?
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Pericles
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How democratic was the Athenian democracy? Choose the best description.
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All citizens were qualified to join the city councils
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Between the mid-eighth and the late sixth centuries B.C.E., the Greeks founded more than four hundred colonies along the shores of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The driving force behind such a movement was primarily
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population pressure
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Which of the following was not a consequence of Greek colonization?
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It disrupted trade and commerce
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The Delian League was created to
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- conduct democratic reforms in Athens.
- discourage further Persian invasions. - maintain peace within the Greek world. - bring greater wealth to Sparta and its allies. |
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The Peloponnesian War was fought between
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two groups of Greek adversaries under the leadership of Athens and Sparta
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The freedom and independence of the Greek poleis finally fell under
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Philip II by 338 B.C.E.
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By 327 B.C.E. Alexander’s troops refused to go any further from home after they reached
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India
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Which of the following is not true with regard to Alexandria of Egypt?
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It was originally a colony of Egypt
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The Greek peninsula was
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ideal for cultivating grapes and olives
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Which of the following would you have been likely to have witnessed in classical Greece?
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A) A woman accused her husband of abandoning her newborn baby, but the court rejected her petition.
B) After her husband's death, a woman managed the family shop by herself. C) After a woman's homosexuality was exposed, even the homosexual men of her community condemned her. D) A Spartan woman took up arms to defend the polis. |
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Greek philosophy is often characterized as “rational” because
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it was based purely on human reason.
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Which of the following was not one of Plato's ideas?
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the belief that only democracy could make the philosopher-king possible
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The most respected and influential of the Hellenistic philosophers were
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the Stoics.
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According to Plato, Socrates' view of death was that
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no evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
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Which of the following was true of the religions of salvation in Hellenistic society?
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The religions of salvation promised life and eternal bliss after death because of a savior who died and was resurrected. The cult of Osiris was one of these. So was Christianity. Such beliefs spread along the trade routes.
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