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Chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the ancient Greeks were portrayed as | expert and fearless seafarers. |
| Minoan and Mycenaean societies? | Both societies built palaces. |
| By "tyrants" the Greeks meant | Ambitious politicians who gained power by irregular means. |
| Spartan life meant? | Boys were taken away from their mothers for military training to make them become stronger |
| Athenian political leader? | Pericles |
| How democratic was the Athenian democracy? | All male citizens were qualified to join the city councils. |
| 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 this movement was primarily | Population pressure. |
| what is NOT a consequence of Greek colonization? | Disrupted trade and commerce. |
| The Delian League was created to...? | Discourage further Persian invasions. |
| The Peloponnesian War was fought between | Two groups of Greek adversaries under the leadership of Athens and Sparta. |
| The freedom and independence of the Greek poleis finally fell under | Philip II, by 338 B.C.E. |
| Alexander's troops refused to go any further from home after they reached ________ in 327 B.C.E. | India |
| what is NOT true with regard to Alexandria of Egypt? | It was originally a colony of Athens. |
| The Greek peninsula was | Ideal for cultivating olives and grapes. |
| Which of the following might you have witnessed in classical Greece? | A woman accusing her husband of abandoning her newborn baby, but the court rejecting her petition A woman managing the family shop by herself after her husband's death Even the homosexual men of the community condemning a woman after he |
| Greek philosophy is often characterized as "rational" because | It was based purely on human reason. |
| What is NOT one of Plato's ideas? | The belief that only democracy could make the philosopher-king possible |
| The most respected and influential of the Hellenistic philosophers were | The Stoics |
| According to Plato, Socrates' view of death was that | No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death |
| Which of the following is true of the religions of salvation in Hellenistic society? | They promised the possibility of eternal bliss. The cult of Osiris became one of the most popular. Many included the belief in a savior who dies and is resurrected. Faith in them spread along the trade routes. |
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