Name: ______
Date: ______Period: ______
2nd Quarter Assessment Study Guide
Directions: Use your textbook, packets and bellringersto define the terms below.
1. Polis-______
2. Democracy- ______
3. Colony- ______
4. Acropolis- ______
5. Veto- ______
6. Reform- ______
7. Aqueduct- ______
8. Forum- ______
Completion
9. What is the difference between a plebeian and a patrician?
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10. What was Hannibal’s strategy in war? Did it work? Explain. (See pages 275-276 in textbook)
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11. According to legend, ______was the founder of Rome.
12. Read about Julius Caesar on pages 280-281. In your own words, briefly describe Caesar’s accomplishments and how he rose to power.
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13. What was the job of the consuls in the Roman Republic? What can we compare the consuls to in our government today?
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14. What does” PaxRomana” mean?
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DBQ: There will be a document based question on your second quarter assessment. Use the document below to answer the questions that follow for practice.
Directions: DBQs Use the document below to answer the questions that follow.--Pericles' Funeral Oration
"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one . . . is kept [out of government] because of poverty."
—Pericles, as recorded by Thucydides,
History of the Peloponnesian War
______39. Why did Pericles call his government a democracy?
A. Only rich people could vote.
B. Power belonged to the whole people.
C. Public offices were for men only.
D. none of these
______40. What did the Greeks use to decide who should hold public office?
A. class
B. primary elections / C. wealth
D. ability
______41. How did the Greeks apply the law?
A. Everyone was equal.
B. Women were better. / C. Poor people were better.
D. Rich people were better.
Across
6. Successful Athenian leader who was able to create a small empire from the Delian league dues
7. Famous philosopher who believed there was an absolute right and wrong
Down
1. Son of Phillip II who took over Greece, Persia and beyond there creating a large empire
2. a person who seeks learning through questioning and discipline
3. Blind poet who was responsible for writing the Illiad and the Odyssey
4. "Father of history"
5. This person was said to be sent by God as the anointed savior
Reading a Map: Applying Skills Use the map below to answer the questions that follow.
______25. Alexander's empire extended to which river in the east?A. Indus
B. Tigris / C. Euphrates
D. Nile
______26. Which body of water bordered Alexander's empire on the west?
A. Persian Gulf
B. Arabian Sea / C. Caspian Sea
D. Mediterranean Sea
______27. Which city of Alexander's empire was in Egypt?
A. Persepolis
B. Alexandria / C. Athens
D. Susa