Multiple Choice CH 2 – Flashcards
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The greek city-state was called a...
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Polis
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Unlike Plato, Aristotle...
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Argued that one had to observe and study actual entities rather than seek out ideal forms
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Which of the following was NOT an advantage for Athens in the war with Sparta?
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The best Land army in Greece (they did have naval co trip of the aegean, long walls protecting their harbor and city, and wealth and supplies from seaborne trade)
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According to Thucydides, the Peloponnesian War was caused by...
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Sparta' fear of Athen's growing power
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Sparta developed a strict military state and society in order to...
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Keep their conquered people, or "helots," in subjugation and slavery
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The source of a fundamental characteristic of western civilization- the call for rational inquiry- was a philosopher of...
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Greece
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The Greek philosopher who argued that the world of the sense was only a shadow of ultimate reality was...
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Plato
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The Greek political reform Cleisthenes...
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Established an athenian constitution with many democratic features
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"Tyrant" was the name given to...
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A ruler who used physical force rather than hereditary right or constitutional means to seize power
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Respectable Athenian women...
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Tended to stay within the home, presiding over spinning and weaving
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The epics of Homer are set in the period of Greek history called the...
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Dark Ages
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Hippocrates, considered the father of western medicine, taught that...
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All diseases have natural causes that can be discovered by observation
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the comedies of Aristophanes?
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The exaltation of military values (did include ruthless criticism of contemporary Athens, the use of costumes and crude humor, and expression of a longing for peace)
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The theban plays of Sophocles are an illustration that the great Athenian playwrights...
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Tried to explore complex moral issues
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The Greek dark ages commenced when...
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The Mycenaean culture collapsed
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The Greek gods...
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Resembled human beings, shared the same virtues and defects as mankind, periodically interfered in human affairs
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Spartan society...
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Gave women considerably more public freedom than other city-states, including athletic training
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The tragedies of Euripides...
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Asked Athenians to reflect on their own actions during the Peloponnesian war
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Which of the following Persian war battles was a Persian, rather than a Greek, victory?
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Thermopylae (Greeks were victorious at salamis, marathon, and plataea)
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During the half century following the Peloponnesian war...
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Constant warfare among the poleis weakened Greek politically and culturally
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The Greek polis known for its emphasis on military training was...
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Sparta
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The great historian of the Persian wars, justifiably known as the "father of western history" was...
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Herodotus
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Agora
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Central place of assembly and market
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Polis
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Greek city-state
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Phalanx
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Thighs military formation that was nearly impenetrable
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Hubris
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The exhibition of excessive pride or arrogance
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Arete
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The highest virtue for homer and subsequent Greeks, characterized by manliness and courage
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Socratic method
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A process of questioning and refuting students' answers
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Doric
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The oldest order of Classical Greek buildings
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Strategoi
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Elected commanders of tribal army unity; Pericles was one
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Helots
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People from districts near Sparta, conquered and enslaved by the Spartans
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Oligarchy
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"Rule by a few" the government of Corinth and other small city-states
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What is NOT true of the Olympic Games...
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Men and women could compete together in some events (BUT the games were pan-Hellenic, or open to Greeks from any polis, a religious festival for Zeus, and victorious athletes were richly rewarded with honor and free meals)
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Bisexual relationships were common in Greek society because...
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Men spent Great amounts of time together, male/male relationships were thought to offer the highest possibilities for love and intellectual development, and many men feared female sexuality
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What was Athen's response to the Melians' insistence that they and their island remain neutral in the Peloponnesian War...
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The Athenians killed all the men and enslaved the women and children
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The Greek invention of philosophy, or the search for knowledge, involved the idea that...
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The world and the cosmos were assessable to human reason and based on natural laws
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The Minoan civilization...
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Had Artist who often painted frescoes featuring religious rituals
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A major occurrence at the end of the Greek Dark Ages and beginning of classic Greek civilization was the...
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Spread of Greek colonies over much of the Mediterranean and Black Sea shorelines
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Which of the following was NOT A result of the widespread violence and movement of peoples in the eastern Mediterranean around 1200 B.C.E.?
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The Establishment of democracy at Athens (BUT some results were a besieged and weakened Egyptian Empire, The Trojan war and destruction of Troy, and the decline of Mycenaen civilization and its invasion by the Dorian Greeks
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The themes of the Greek theater centered on issues of...
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Fate, religion, and politics
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Which of the following was NOT one of the early Greek philosophers or scientists?
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Gilgamesh (BUT Pythagoras, Democritus, and Thales are)
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The historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian War was...
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Thucydides
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The best-excavated and best-known Minoan place on the island of Crete is...
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Knossos
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Although the Greeks learned many things from earlier civilizations, the philosopher Plato said the...
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Greeks turn those things into something finer
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The oracle at Delhi reputedly received messages from the god...
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Apollo
