Chapter 3 The Archaic Age of Greece

Question 1

Around what time period did the Archaic Period begin

Answer 1

c. 790/700 B.C

Question 2

Where did the Greeks spread out too?

Answer 2

Over the Mediterranean

Question 3

A positive to the Archaic would be?

Answer 3

More colonies and Expanded trade

Question 4

What were Male citizens called?

Answer 4

Politai

Question 5

Who were the Megara?

Answer 5

Megarians

Question 6

Agora

Answer 6

Gathering place where they talked about civic issues

Question 7

Who plotted the stars and drew the first geographical map?

Answer 7

Anaximander

Question 8

Which philosophers studied math and astronomy?

Answer 8

Presocratics

Question 9

Name a famous lyric poet we went over in this chapter

Answer 9

Archilochus

Question 10

Where did lyric poets recite at?

Answer 10

Drinking Parties

Question 11

Which type of philosophers were more interested in structure and development?

Answer 11

Archaic

Question 12

What is the chief governmental position in Athens?

Answer 12

Archon

Question 13

What century is the beginning of the Independent city states across Mediterranean(Black Sea)?

Answer 13

7th Century

Question 14

What was an ancient word used to define the black sea?

Answer 14

Eurine Sea

Question 15

What’s the ancient island off the coast of the Eurine Sea called?

Answer 15

Propontis

Question 16

Which god is mentioned in the works and days used to keep unjust from happening?

Answer 16

Zeus

Question 17

What’s a story which showed the difference between the marriages in Hesiod?

Answer 17

Pandora

Question 18

What type of tone is shown in the works and days?

Answer 18

Moralistic

Question 19

What time period marked roughly the first serious challenge to oligarchy?

Answer 19

670-500 B.C

Question 20

True or False tyrants rose due to their personal achievements?

Answer 20

True

Question 21

What’s the average span of most tyrannies?

Answer 21

1-2 Generations

Question 22

Which Greece city invented “red-figure” technique?

Answer 22

Athens

Question 23

Which philosopher had disciples, and taught the theory of the universe?

Answer 23

Pythagoras

Question 24

What word was known as city state to the Greece?

Answer 24

Polis

Question 25

What's the direct translation of the word Philosophy?

Answer 25

Love of Wisdom

Question 26

What festivals grew and fostered a Greek identity?

Answer 26

Panhellenic Festivals

Question 27

What was Pankration?

Answer 27

Vicious combination of boxing & wrestling

Question 28

Where was the Oracle of Apollo located?

Answer 28

Delphi

Question 29

Who was the priestess who imported Apollos messages in a trances type of state?

Answer 29

Pythia

Question 30

What year marked the first quadrennial games in Zeus' honor?

Answer 30

776 B.C

Question 31

Who interpreted the Pythia?

Answer 31

Prophetal

Question 32

Who wrote the book which taught us about farming, back then?

Answer 32

Hesiod

Question 33

Where was Hesiod from?

Answer 33

Ascra in Boeotia

Question 34

Who led the colonists?

Answer 34

Oikistes

Question 35

How were the colonies connected?

Answer 35

Kinship and Religion

Question 36

Who founded the Byzantium's?

Answer 36

Megarians

Question 37

What Greek organization had people but didn't have a polis?

Answer 37

Ethnos

Question 38

What were Polemarchos?

Answer 38

Military Commander's in some poleis

Question 39

What word was used for the people not apart of upper class?

Answer 39

Hoi polloi

Question 40

What were Kouros

Answer 40

Statues of naked young men

Question 41

What were Kore

Answer 41

Statues of clothed young maidens

Question 42

Who was the only women poet of Archaiac?

Answer 42

Sappho

Question 43

What was it called when soldiers arranged in tight formations?

Answer 43

Phalanx

Question 43

What was it called when soldiers arranged in tight formations?

Answer 43

Phalanx

Question 44

Heavy armored foot soldiers

Answer 44

Hoplites

Question 45

What did the colonies call the founding polis?

Answer 45

Metropolis

Question 45

What did the colonies call the founding polis?

Answer 45

Metropolis

Question 46

What civilization adopted the Greek Alphabet?

Answer 46

Etruscans

Question 47

Forming a union over several places

Answer 47

Synoecism

Question 48

Which three major city-states were involved with the war of Peloponnesos?

Answer 48

Sparta, Corinth, Argos

Question 49

What did the shields the hoplites used called?

Answer 49

Hoplon

Question 50

Who were the decent middle class?

Answer 50

Hoi mesoi