Chapter 7 Highlights

Question 1

What values did Greek artists and architects use?

Answer 1

harmony, symmetry and balance

Question 2

Which city-state was Parthenon built in?

Answer 2

Athenes

Question 3

Who was ruling the city state when the Parthenon was built?

Answer 3

Pericles

Question 4

Did buildings in Greece have random arrangements of columns?

Answer 4

No, they were organized careful to create harmony and balance

Question 5

What are Greek Sculptors known for?

Answer 5

Realistic human sculptures

Question 6

What did the plays of Aeschylus explore?

Answer 6

hubris

Question 7

What does hubris mean?

Answer 7

the human flaw of excessive pride

Question 8

Who wrote Oedipus the king?

Answer 8

Sophocles

Question 9

What did most of Euripides plays explore?

Answer 9

problems in Athenian society

Question 10

Who is the father of history?

Answer 10

Herodotus

Question 11

What did Herodotus write about?

Answer 11

customs and traditions of people in distant lands

Question 12

Who wrote History of Peloponnesian War?

Answer 12

Thucydides

Question 13

What is known as the first great work of political history?

Answer 13

History of the Peloponnesian War

Question 14

What did Socrates teach his student?

Answer 14

to question tradition values

Question 15

Was Plato the student or was Socrates the student?

Answer 15

Plato was Socrates student

Question 16

Who wrote the philosophical works known as the Dialogues?

Answer 16

Plato

Question 17

Did Plato study under Aristotle or did Aristotle study under Plato?

Answer 17

Aristotle studied under Plato

Question 18

Did Aristotle teach and write on physics, chemistry , astronomy, ethics, politics or literature?

Answer 18

Trick question (:
He wrote and taught on all of them

Question 19

What did Thales study?

Answer 19

astronomy

Question 20

What was Thales most known for predicting?

Answer 20

a total eclipse of the sun

Question 21

Who is known as the father of medicine?

Answer 21

Hippocrates

Question 22

What was different about Hippocrates theory’s compared to what was considered fact at the time?

Answer 22

That disease was a natural phenomenon, not a punishment of the gods.

Question 23

Who was Alexander the son of?

Answer 23

King Philip II of Macedonia

Question 24

Alexander lead a great army that defeated who?

Answer 24

The Persians

Question 25

How far was the empire that Alexander created?

Answer 25

The Indus River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 26

After Alexander’s death what happened to Greece?

Answer 26

His generals divided up the empire. Greek culture continued to thrive.

Question 27

What did Alexander’s ruling age bring?

Answer 27

Hellenistic Age

Question 28

What helped bring about the Hellenistic Age?

Answer 28

The spread of Greek culture