Question 1

Those Greeks who were able to accumulate wealth during the Dark Age eventually emerged as the Greek ___________.

Accepted Answer

aristocracy

Question 2

Homer’s poetry describes a world in which warrior aristocrats reinforce social ties through what?

Accepted Answer

hospitality and gift giving

Question 3

Hubris is _______________.

Accepted Answer

excessive pride, which was punished by the gods

Question 4

The Greeks became literate again during the 9th century B.C.E. by ______________.

Accepted Answer

Phoenician alphabet

Question 5

By the sixth century B.C.E., Greeks founded numerous colonies around the Mediterranean basin.  The most historically significant colonies were

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Anatolia (present-day Turkey) and Italy

Question 6

Since every polis needed Hoplites the men who took part began to demand __________.

Accepted Answer

a role in politics

Question 7

In the symposium, Archaic Age Greek aristocrats enjoyed what?

Accepted Answer

wine and listened to poetry

Question 8

A Greek aristocrat who seized power and ruled outside the traditional constitutional framework was called a ________.

Accepted Answer

tyrant

Question 9

Democracy originated in Greece from the idea of the demos, what does it literally mean?

Accepted Answer

neighborhood

Question 10

Cleisthenes is important in the history of Athenian government because he

Accepted Answer

championed the cause of the demos and took steps to limit the power of the aristocracy.

Question 11

______________ is important in the history of Athenian government because he championed the cause of the demos and took steps to limit the power of the aristocracy.

Accepted Answer

Cleisthenes

Question 12

The first historian of the Western world was __________.

Accepted Answer

Herodotus

Question 13

The Persian Wars were begun by a revolt instigated by certain Greeks, what colony?

Accepted Answer

Ionia Greeks, against Persians

Question 14

During the second Persian War, Themistocles persuaded his fellow Athenians to do something drastic what was it?

Accepted Answer

abandon Athens and let Persia burn it

Question 15

According to the historian Thucydides, the Peloponnesian War began because of the growing power of who? And also the fear and envy it inspired in what city-state?

Accepted Answer

Athens; Sparta

Question 16

Sparta imposed what form of government on the defeated Athenians and their allies?

Accepted Answer

ogliarchy

Question 17

Socrates’ most important pupil was __________.

Accepted Answer

Plato

Question 18

Alexander the Great is said to have taken two books with him on his conquest of Persia, what were they?

Accepted Answer

Iliad and Xenophon's Anabasis

Question 19

The Theban Sacred Band was what?

Accepted Answer

elite military unit composed entirely of male couples

Question 20

Whereas Plato conceived of politics as _______________, Aristotle regarded politics ________________.

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a means toward living the good life; an end in itself

Question 21

The 4th century B.C.E. in Greece witnessed a confused political terrain, with many attempting to discover a direction for the Greeks; among these was _________, who believed that the _______________________________.

Accepted Answer

Isocrates; Greeks could rediscover their lost unity by an invasion of Persia

Question 22

Philip II of Macedon’s early success had much to do with his reorganization of what?

Accepted Answer

Macedonian army

Question 23

The ultimate aim of the League of Corinth was to ___________.

Accepted Answer

invade Persia

Question 24

The political and military alliance by which the Macedonians united Greece under their own rule was known as the _____________.

Accepted Answer

League of Corinth

Question 25

Alexander was aided in his conquest of Egypt by being proclaimed as the ___________ by the _________________.

Accepted Answer

“Son of Ammon”; son god's oracle

Question 26

All of the male rulers of Macedonian Egypt took what name?

Accepted Answer

Ptolemy

Question 27

To highlight their authority and status in the former Persian Empire, Seleucid rulers used terms in ________

Accepted Answer

proclamations reminiscent of earlier Mesopotamian rulers.

Question 28

With the expansion of population in the Hellenistic urban centers, Middle and Near Eastern cities reached population levels _________.

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that Europe would not reach until the eighteenth century.

Question 29

The Stoics believed that the cosmos is an ______

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ordered whole in which all contradictions are resolved for the ultimate good.

Question 30

Aristarchus of Samos was unusual among Hellenistic astronomers because he believed that the earth ___________ around the sun.

Accepted Answer

circled

Question 31

Scientific development during the Hellenistic period was of such a degree that the era may be compared favorable to ____________________________

Accepted Answer

the seventeenth-century scientific revolution.

Question 32

With the expansion of population in the ___________________, Middle and Near Eastern cities reached population levels that Europe would not reach until the eighteenth century.

Accepted Answer

Hellenistic urban centers

Question 33

The Stoics believed that the _________ is an ordered whole in which all contradictions are resolved for the ultimate good.

Accepted Answer

cosmos

Question 34

To highlight their authority and status in the former Persian Empire, _______ rulers used terms in proclamations reminiscent of earlier Mesopotamian rulers.

Accepted Answer

Seleucid

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