Quiz 3 Greek Civilization

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Put the following periods of Greek Political history in chronological order.

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1. Minoans
2. Mycenans
3. Dorians
4. Persian Wars
5. Pelloponesian War

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The greeks were the first civilized by conquering far more advanced non-Greek culture of the people of Crete who are known as the?

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Minoans

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The warlike heroic greeks from the north who destroyed Greece's first civilization and plunged the peninsula into the Dark age were called the?

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Dorians

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A greek self-governing city that is laid out in a similar rectangular grid pattern with all other cities is called a ?

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Polis

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Temple in the high ground in the middle is called a?

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Acropolis

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Marketplace that surrounds Acropolis is called?

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Agora

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The enslaved Messinian Greeks whos city was conquered and renamed by the Spartans and who were designated by the Spartan as a Sub-human and mere property were called?

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Helots

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The Spartan Republic was governed by a law making body that was elected by all Spartan males over the age of 30, was called the ?

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Council of elders

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The Archon who reformed the government of athens by extending the vote to the upper middle and middle class citizens and outlaw imposing slavery for debt is ?

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Solon

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The Great Democrat who invented democracy by dividing athens into equal voting districts and giving the right to vote to all male citizens is?

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Cleisthenes

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The term for a voting district that established one man, one vote in athen from which all male citizens over the age 18 elected 50 members to the council of 500 are called?

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Demos

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The rise of Greece to world power occured because they defeated the world empire that tried to subjugate them in two conflicts known as the?

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Persian wars

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Athens began imperialistic dominance of Greece by enriching and empowering its city as head of what alliance fromed against future Persian threats?

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Delian League

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The greeks weakened their independent and world power by fighting among themselves in a devastating 20-year long civil war called the ?

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Peloponnesian War

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That civil ware between Sparta and it allies against Athens and its allies was a stalemate because athens dominated the seas and Sparta the land until finally it was won by?

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Sparta

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The powerful military chief of barbarian northern Greeks who unified all Greek city- states under his rule into one kingdom was named?

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Philip the Great

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His son led the greeks into the conquest of the entire persian empire, including egypt, the near east, central asia.

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Alexander the Great

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The first emergence of writing in 800 BC occured with the writing down of the epic poems that the greeks believe are history of their ancestry authored by?

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Homer

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This epic poems which demonstrate the high value of Greeks place on striving for excellence, heroism, and courage are called the ?

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Illiad, and the Odyssey

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The greek form of drama that was intended to teach a deep moral lesson, especially as concerns mans, relationship with the gods and his fate, are called?

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Tragedy

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Power and authority God?

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Zeus

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Wisdown and Reason God?

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Athena

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Activity, Change and Sea God?

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Poseidon

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Love and Emotion God?

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Aphrodite

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Athens impressive structure that shows greek love for symmetry, balance, and harmony was the temple to Athena, known as the ?

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Parthenon

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The greek competitiveness, love for physical activity and struggle for excellence is also present int the athletic contets held every four years called the?

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Olympic games

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First historian who wrote the history of the persian wars?

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Herodotus

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His successor who wrote the first objective in history in his recount of the greek civil war was named?

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thucydides

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The philosopher who founded the first university called the Academy wrote The republic and who argued that it is the concept or the ideal in our mind that defines reality, not the material substance is named

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Plato

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The father of biology is a greek philosopher who argued that we not understand matter unless we knew its substance, form and purpose, and that the best form of government is a constitutional monarchy was named?

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Aristotle