Lesson 4

Question 0

What type of government did Athens practice?

Answer 0

Democratic govenment

Question 1

As the Persian war ended who became powerful and a self confident city state?

Answer 1

Athens

Question 2

Direct Government

Answer 2

A form of democracy in which all citizens can practice firsthand in the decision-making process

Question 3

Representative democracy

Answer 3

A form of democracy in which citizens elect officials to govern on their behalf.

Question 4

Philosopher

Answer 4

A person who searches for wisdom or enlightenment

Question 5

What democracy does the US have?

Answer 5

Representative

Question 6

What type of democracy does Athens use.

Answer 6

Direct

Question 7

What do people at the Athens assemble do?

Answer 7

Participate citizens pass laws, elect officials, and made policy on war and foreign affair.

Question 8

Who was the most important general in Athenian government

Answer 8

Pericles

Question 9

What did Pericles do to the city states of Athens.

Answer 9

Made it a more democratic city state and appointed people from lower social classes.

Question 10

Under Pericles rule what did Athens become the center if?

Answer 10

Leaning and the arts

Question 11

During the Persians war what did they do to Athens.

Answer 11

Burned it

Question 12

What did Pericles call the city?

Answer 12

The school of Greece

Question 13

What was the largest city state?

Answer 13

Athens

Question 14

What did Athens men and women do.

Answer 14

Men were farmers, artisans, and merchants, they spent afternoons exercising in the gym. Athenian women focused on their homes and families.

Question 15

Few women had more freedom.

Answer 15

Foreigners

Question 16

Who is Aspasia?

Answer 16

She was a regarded women that was known for her intelligence and charm. She taught public speaking and her ideas were popular among Athenians.

Question 17

How did Athens support their city. state with food?

Answer 17

They built a fleet ships it import more from other places

Question 18

What league did the Athenians join to defend its members from Persia

Answer 18

The Delian league because use it was in Delos

Question 19

What was the strongest city state?

Answer 19

Athens

Question 20

What pressured Sparta to attach Athens

Answer 20

When Athens began interfering with some of Sparta allies. These allies pressured Sparta to attack Athens

Question 21

What did they call the war against Sparta and Athens,why??

Answer 21

Peloponnesian War because Sparta is located in Peloponnesus

Question 22

Who won the peloponnesian war

Answer 22

Sparta

Question 23

How did Pericles die?

Answer 23

He died from a disease that killed many people including Pericles

Question 24

What was the deal that Sparta made with the Persian empire.

Answer 24

The Spartans agreed to give the Persians some of Greek territory in Anatolia. In return, Sparta received enough Persian hold to build its own navy.

Question 25

What did Sparta do with the gold to build the navy.

Answer 25

They built a navy and destroyed the Athens in the peloponnesian war and the Athenians surrendered.

Question 26

When the Athenians surrendered what did Sparta do.

Answer 26

Knock down the city walls and Athen collapsed.

Question 27

How did Pericles choose people for positions in the government of Athens?

Answer 27

Pericles choose the people to be in his government because of their abilities not their social class.

Question 28

Why did the Delian League break apart?

Answer 28

Over time Athens began to use its influence to control the other member city-states. The league was no longer an alliance of equal city-state fighting Persia. It had become a group of city states controlled by Athens. Pericles helped the Athens dominate the Delian league.