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Ancient Greece Study Guide

Question 1 3.3pts

In Ancient Greece, the main political unit was the

Peloponnesus.
A. polis.
B. agora.
C. village.

Question 2 3.3pts

Where were the government buildings of an ancient Greek community?

A. on a nearby island.
B. in the Acropolis.
C. in the marketplace.
D. in the countryside.

Question 3 3.3pts

Politics is the practice of...

A. art
B. religion
C. culture
D. government

Question 4 3.3pts

Who were the only people who held legal rights in a Greek city-state?

A. priests.
B. kings.
C. hereditary rulers.
D. citizens..

Question 5 3.3pts

The aristocracy got its power through

A. war.
B. birth.
C. religion.
D. talent.

Question 6 3.3pts

The geography of Greece caused which of the following?

A. all answers provided.
B. Good for grazing sheep and goats.
C. Too steep for farming
D. Never united/often at war with one another

Question 7 1pts

Greece's climate was good for which of the following..

A. growing shallow rooted crops
B. all answers provided.
C. growing foreign grains
D. growing grapes and olives.

Question 8 3.3pts

The Minoan culture were highly advanced and proof of this is how they.....

A. began to irrigate for agriculture
B. had huge stone palaces with running water
C. created a new type of stone to build with in Greece.
D. all of the answers provided

Question 9 3.3pts

The Mycenaeans were defeated by the...

A. Athenians.
B. Spartans.
C. Dorians.
D. Minoans.

Question 10 3.3pts

What was the "Dark Age"?

A. a time period that followed after the Mycenaeans were defeated by the Dorians.
B. time period when mainland Greeks migrated across the Aegean.
C. time when the Greeks lost the ability to read and write.
D. none of the answers provided.

Question 11 3.3pts

Ten year conflict that ended with the Greeks giving a "gift" of a large wooden horse where Greeks hiding in the horse crept out and opened the city gates and burning Troy to the ground is known as the...

A. War on Trojans.
B. War of Greece.
C. War of Troy.
D. Trojan War.

Question 12 3.3pts

Homer was a famous philosopher for which of the following...

A. writing both the Iliad and Odyssey
B. writing the laws for the aristocracy
C. writing the The Iliad
D. writing the Odyssey.

Question 13 3.3pts

Why did the citizens meet at the government center of their city-state?

A. to decide on the new location of Corinth
B. to discuss any problems with their economy
C. to have court.
D. to make laws and discuss issues affecting the community

Question 14 3.3pts

Greeks began to organize themselves into which of the following after it began to rebuild after the Dark Ages?

A. political parties
B. polis
C. acropolis
D. aristocracy

Question 15 3.3pts

Each city-state had ...

A. the same laws and guidelines to follow.
B. the same aristocracy leading each city-state.
C. a different kind of government.
D. the same king as their leader.

Question 16 3.3pts

What monumental ( great/huge) change started to occur ( happen) in Greek city-states and made them unique?

A. Some city-states began having the citizens govern and rule themselves.
B. The citizens lost their sense of pride and began to move else where.
C. A political revolution began to spread causing a huge change in leadership.
D. All Greeks began to be ruled by the same king.

Question 17 3.6pts

This image represents the...

A. countryside
B. acropolis
C. aristocracy
D. polis

Question 18 4.3pts

"It is clear that the polis is a natural growth and that man is by nature a political animal, and a man who is citiless by nature and not by fortune is either low in the scale of humanity or above it, solitary like an isolate piece in chess."
---Aristotle, Politics
In this document, Aristotle describes a theory of human nature that reflects the reality that Greek political life was organized into...

A. city-states
B. republics
C. democracies
D. tyrannies

Question 19 3.3pts

Leaders of the Greek oligarchies made laws that likely favored the

A. foot soldiers
B. rich
C. poor
D. judges

Question 20 3.3pts

The phalanx was composed of

A. Spartan women.
B. foot soldiers.
C. soldiers on horseback.
D. aristocrats.

Question 21 3.3pts

Under democracy, who held power over government?

A. a single ruler
B. a phalanx
C. wealthy judges
D. male citizens

Question 22 3.3pts

Who ran a tyranny?

A. wealthy judges
B. a phalanx
C. a single ruler
D. ordinary citizens

Question 233.3pts

In what kind of government do citizens elect other people to make decisions on their behalf?

A. aristocracy
B. representative democracy
C. oligarchy
D. direct democracy

Question 24 3.3pts

In Sparta, who could limit the power of the council of elders?

A. any ordinary citizen
B. women
C. ephors
D. helots

Question 25 3.3pts

The status of the helots was a result of

A. conquest
B. military strength
C. wealth
D. inheritance

Question 26 3.3pts

Sparta was organized as a military state because of the fear of the

A. Messians
B. Athenians
C. oligarchs
D. democrats

Question 27 3.3pts

Where did Spartan boys live?

A. in ephors' homes
B. in barracks
C. with helots
D. with military families

Question 28 3.3pts

The Spartans valued

A. change
B. new ideas
C. individual expression
D. fitting in

Question 29 5.3pts

The following question may have multiple answers. Please look carefully and choose ALL that are correct.

The helots were...

A. conquered Messians.
B. worked on farms
C. were attacked annually by ephors
D. high in social status

Question 30 3.3pts

Which of the following completes the analogy?


Athens is to Democracy as Sparta is to ______

A. autocracy
B. oligarchy
C. democracy
D. dictatorship