History Test 2

Question 1

Crete

Answer 1

Wealthy Minoan civilization-earliest center of civilization in Agean region- known for love of beauty

Question 2

Mycenae

Answer 2

Leading commercial center- military fervor

Question 3

Homer

Answer 3

Gave us our knowledge on the Greek dark ages- wrote Iliad and Oddesey

Question 4

Zeus

Answer 4

Greek King of god and man- on mount Olympus

Question 5

Athena

Answer 5

Goddess of wisdom- patron of Athens- Zeus’s daughter

Question 6

Anthropomorphic gods

Answer 6

Human form and characteristics

Question 7

Helots

Answer 7

Slaves of Spartans

Question 8

Polis

Answer 8

City states

Question 9

Acropolis

Answer 9

Fortified hill

Question 10

Monarchy

Answer 10

Rule by 1

Question 11

Oligarchy

Answer 11

Rule by few

Question 12

Tyranny

Answer 12

Rule by force

Question 13

Democracy

Answer 13

Rule by the people

Question 14

Sparta

Answer 14

Militaristic state- oligarchy

Question 15

Peloponnesian league

Answer 15

Spartas group to fight against Athens

Question 16

Athens

Answer 16

Creative and intellectual state

Question 17

Solon

Answer 17

Took Athens a step towards democracy

Question 18

Darius I

Answer 18

Crushed revolt against Persians and sought to punish Athens for it- Bay of marathon

Question 19

Xerxes

Answer 19

Burned Athens (I think)

Question 20

Pericles

Answer 20

Influential Athens ruler- great Greek accomplishments

Question 21

Battle of Thermopylae

Answer 21

Xerxes led persians- Greeks were outnumbered- 300 Spartans fought to their death- Greeks defeated

Question 22

Battle of Salamis Bay

Answer 22

Xerxes burned Athens- Persians were trapped- Greeks won

Question 23

Delian league

Answer 23

Greek city state alliance against Persians

Question 24

Peloponnesian war

Answer 24

Delian league against Sparta- Sparta won because of Persian alliance and the destruction of the Athenian fleet

Question 25

Philosophers

Answer 25

Lovers of wisdom who sought truth and knowledge through man’s reasoning and wisdom

Question 26

Thales of Miletus

Answer 26

Father of philosophy

Question 27

Socrates

Answer 27

“Know thyself”- reason is the best guide to good behavior- virtue is knowledge- condemned to death (drank poison)

Question 28

Plato

Answer 28

Concern for anarchy- reality is outside the physical world

Question 29

Aristotle

Answer 29

Plato’s famous student- reality is in the physical world- 3 step thinking

Question 30

Epicureans

Answer 30

Said happiness and pleasure comes from avoidance of pain and fear

Question 31

Zeno

Answer 31

Said man must accept his fate- life of duty and self control- founded stoicism

Question 32

Pythagoras

Answer 32

Universe in mathematical terms- made theorems

Question 33

Hypocrites

Answer 33

Father of medicine- disease comes from natural occurrence

Question 34

Euclid

Answer 34

Father of geometry- textbook “Elements”

Question 35

Archimedes

Answer 35

Invented lever

Question 36

Eratosthenes

Answer 36

Circumference, latitude, longitude

Question 37

Herodotus

Answer 37

Father of history

Question 38

Thucydides

Answer 38

Gave us history of peloponnesian war

Question 39

Sophocles

Answer 39

Wrote tradgedies

Question 40

Aristophanes

Answer 40

Wrote comedies

Question 41

Archaic sculptures

Answer 41

Egyptian influenced- stiff and expressionless figures

Question 42

Classical sculptures

Answer 42

Finest sculptures- represents ideal man

Question 43

Hellenistic sculptures

Answer 43

Lost it’s simple beauty- frenzied emotional tone

Question 44

Athenian Acropolis

Answer 44

Site of temples for Greek gods

Question 45

Parthenon

Answer 45

Symbol of cultural achievement of Greeks- Built for Athena