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Greek study question
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Young men,in a spartan army between the ages of 20 and 30 ? | Hoplites |
| Heroes of Greek stories their life was ended by ? | Hubris |
| An,alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens | Delian League |
| An alliance of several Greek city-states led by Sparta | Peloponnesian League |
| Aristotle helped develop the field of ? | Logic |
| Poems that were accompanied by music and dealt with emotions and desires | Lyric Poems |
| He wrote the " Iliad " and the "Odyssey " | Homer |
| The greatest Greek writer of comedy | Aristophanes |
| People should seek out pleasure and try to avoid pain | Epicureans |
| This historian lived during the Persian wars and wrote about major events . | Herodotus |
| Considered to be the first Greeks because they spoke a form of the Greek language | Mycenaeans |
| A typical Greek city-state where people shopped, did business and many other things | Agora |
| The assembly in Athens in which all people eligible to take part in government voted directly on an issue | Direct |
| Athens surrendered to Sparta in 404 BC. | Peloponnesian War |
| Believed that only philosophers should lead governments | Plato |
| Aeschylus and Sophocles were two of the three great writers of tragedy who lived in Athens | Euripides |
| 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 philosophy developed during the Hellenistic period in part because | classical philosophy absorbed ideas from other cultures |
| Which god or goddess was the deity of wisdom ? | Athena |
| Why did the Persian emperor Darius attack the Greek mainland ? | To punish Athens for aiding the Ionians in their revolt against Persian rule |
| Macedonia was able to take control of all of Greece in the 340s BC | A long cycle of warfare left all of Greece vulnerable to attack |
| Two distinct cultures developed in early Greece, the Minoans and the ? | Mycenaeans |