Ch. 4 Study Guide

 

 

The test will consist of definitions (You will actually have to WRITE the definitions), multiple choice, and short answer. 

 

 

 

1.   What percentage of Greece is mountainous?

 

2.   Approximately how many square miles does Greece occupy?

 

3.   What three seas make up the eastern, western, and southern borders of Greece?

 

4.   The Minoan civilization flourished between 2700-1450 B.C. during what age?

 

5.   Who first discovered the Minoan civilization?

 

6.   What years did the Mycenaean civilization flourish?

 

7.   The Mycenaean’s were warrior people who prided themselves on what?

 

8.   How was the Mycenaean government organized?

 

9.   After the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization, Greece entered what age?

 

10.                      Why was the Dark Age considered “dark?”

 

11.                      What were Homer’s first Greek epic poems?

 

12.                      Why is Homer thought to have created Greek history?

 

13.                      What word do we use today derived from polis?

 

14.                       What was the acropolis used for?

 

15.                       By 5th century B.C., Athens had a population of how many people?

 

16.                       The polis consisted of citizens with political rights which were who?

 

17.                       The polis consisted of citizens with NO political rights which were who? 

 

18.                     The polis consisted of NON citizens with NO rights which were who?

 

19.                       What were the characteristics of a Greek city-state?

 

20.                       What were the results of Greek colonization?

 

21.                       Why did tyrants embark on public building programs?

 

22.                       What were the two most famous and powerful city-states?

 

23.                       What is the Greek work for “capture?”  Who were they?

 

24.                       In what ways did women contribute to Sparta’s military society?

 

25.                       Who was the reform-minded aristocrat who canceled all land debts and freed people who had fallen into slavery for debts?

 

26.                       Who created a council of 500 that supervised foreign affairs, oversaw the treasury, and proposed laws?

 

27.                       How were the Greeks able to defeat the Persians?

 

28.                       What did victory over the Persians cost the Greeks?

 

29.                       What was the defensive alliance that the Athenians formed against the Persians in 478 B.C.?

 

30.                       Pericles expanded the involvement of Athenians in their democracy by creating what?

 

31.                       How did paying public officials help strengthen Athenian democracy?

 

32.                       What was the family’s most important role?

 

33.                       How did the Great Peloponnesian Was weaken the Greek states?

 

34.                       What is the highest mountain in Greece? 

 

35.                       In what ways did the Greeks honor their gods and goddesses?

 

36.                       Who wrote Oedipus Rex?

 

37.                       Why might Greek comedies be controversial?

 

38.                       What forms of literature were developed in ancient Greece?

 

39.                       Who was Plato’s most famous student?

 

40.                       How old was Alexander the Great when he became king of Macedonia?

 

41.                       How did Phillip II and Alexander the Great change Greece?

 

42.                       What word comes from a Greek word meaning “to imitate others?”

 

43.                       What were the four Hellenistic kingdoms that emerged as the successors to Alexander?

 

44.                       The Greek cities of the Hellenistic Era spread Greek culture to where?

 

45.                       What were the Hellenistic buildings characteristic of the Greek homeland?

 

46.                       Who was Eratosthenes?  What did he determine?

 

47.                       Who wrote the textbook on plane geometry called Elements?

 

48.                       Who was the most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era?  What did he do?

 

49.                       Stoics thought happiness could be found only by what?

 

50.                       In which fields did the Hellenistic scholars make advancements?

 

DO NOT FORGET the 10 vocabulary words from the board:  epic poem, polis, hoplite, phalanx, ostracism, ritual, philosophy, tragedy, oligarchy, democracy