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The Homeric epic the Iliad deals with the war to capture Troy
The author of the Iliad was Homer
The political structure of the ancient Greeks usually consisted of independent, autonomous city-states
The Mycenaeans received early, indirect influence from the Egyptians and Phoenicians through their contact with the Minoans
The best example of Minoan culture can be seen in the remains at Knossos
Of the natural disasters that plagued the Minoans, the most devastating was the volcanic eruption in 1628 B.C.E. on the island of Thera
The Mycenaeans adapted the Minoan written language to their own needs, and developed a syllabic script called Linear B
The Minoans wrote with a script, not yet deciphered, that was known as Linear A
The Greeks used the word polis to refer to the city-state
The Spartans were constantly afraid of the prospect of an uprising by serfs known as helots
Distinction among the ancient Spartans came from discipline and military talent.
Athenian democracy was open to all male citizens.
The leader who forged a compromise between Athens’s social classes by allowing the aristocrats to keep their land while also providing representation for the common classes was Solon
Which of the following words was used by the Greeks to refer to generals or politicians who, although often popular, gained power by irregular means tyrant
Which of the following events occurred during the time of Pericles All these answers are correct
Which of the following did NOT come about because of Greek colonization a centralized imperial state
The decisive naval battle of the Persian War was fought at Salamis
Under whose leadership did Athens become the most sophisticated of the poleis Pericles
The naval loss at Salamis was viewed by the Persian king Xerxes
Who won the Peloponnesian War? Sparta
In the years after the Persian War, the leader of the Delian League was Athens
By 338 B.C.E., the Greeks had fallen to Philip II
The most important port in the Hellenistic world was Alexandria
The easternmost point of Alexander’s conquests was Punjab
The largest part of Alexander’s conquests, essentially the former Achaemenid empire, was taken over by Seleucus
Which of the following people wrote that Alexander the Great possessed, “great personal beauty, invincible power of endurance, and a keen intellect Arrian
Of all the Hellenistic empires, Greek influence was greatest in the Seleucid realm
The wealthiest of the Hellenistic empires was the ________ empire Ptolemaic
Ai Khanum was a Hellenistic colony in Bactria
In which polis did women have the most freedom Sparta
Sappho was the most influential female Greek poet
Which of the following statements is true about women in the Greek world Their roles were limited in a strictly patriarchal society
Socrates believed that it was most important to understand . human nature
Which of the following did Socrates believe was more important than wealth or fame honor
Who said, “The unexamined life is not worth living Socrates
The concept of Forms or Ideas is associated with Plato
In Republic, Plato proposed that the true rulers of society should be philosopher kings
Which Greek god was the grandson of the earth and sky gods Zeus
Aristotle believed that philosophers could rely on their senses
Later Christian scholastic philosophers referred to this man as “the master of those who know Aristotle
Women were the chief devotees of the Greek god of wine, who was named Dionysus
The author of The Bacchae was Euripides
Which of the Hellenistic philosophical schools viewed pleasure as the greatest good Epicureans
Which of the Hellenistic philosophical schools considered all human beings to be members of a single, universal family Stoics
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