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Greek Study Stack BB
Chapter 5 Quiz BB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Spartan army was made up of _____, young men between the ages of 20 and 30 who were obligated to serve. | Hoplites |
| Many heros of Greek stories were brought to tragic end by their ____, or great pride. | Hurbris |
| The _____ was an alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens. | Delian League |
| The ____ was an alliance of several Greek city-states led by Sparta. | Peloponnesian League |
| Aristotle helped develop the field of _____, which emphasized using what one already knows to infer new facts. | Logic |
| _____, such as those written by Sappho, were accompanied by music and dealt with emotions and desires. | Lyric Poems |
| _____, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, is probably the most famous Greek poet. | Homer |
| _____ was the greatest Greek writer of comedy. | Aristophanes |
| The _____ taught that people should seek out pleasure and try to avoid pain. | Epicureans |
| The historian _____ lived during the Persian Wars and wrote about the major events of the wars. | Herodotus |
| Historians consider the ______ to be the first Greeks because they spoke a form of the Greek language. | Myceneans |
| A typical Greek city-state included a(n) _____ where people shopped, did business, gossiped, and discussed politics. | Agora |
| The assembly in Athens, in which all people eligible to take part in government voted directly on an issue, was an example of _____ democracy. | Direct |
| In the _____, Athens surrendered to Sparta in 404 BC. | Peloponnesian War |
| Since ____ believed that only philosophers should lead governments, he did not support Athenian democracy. | Plato |
| Aeschylus, Sophocles, and _____ were three great writers of tragedy who lived in Athens. | Euripides |
| The artists of the _____ period learned to convey emotion and movement in their works, especially sculpture. | Hellenistic |
| Greek murals or wall paintings often. | showed scenes from the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| New schools of philosopby developed during the Hellenistic period, in part because. | Classical philosophy absorbed ideas from other cultures |
| Which of the following gods or goddesses was the deity of wisdom? | Athena |
| Why did the Persian emporor Darius attack the Greek mainland? | To punish Athens for aiding the lonians in their revolt against Persain rule |
| Macedonia was able to take control of all of Greece in the 340s BC because | A long cycle of warfare left all of Greece vunnerable |
| Two distinct developed in early Greece, the Minoas and the | Mylenaeans |
| The _____, or the city-state, was the basic political unit in Greece. | Polis |