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HUM 2210
Instructor: Paloma Rodriguez
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Name: ______________________________
Summer 2010
Answers for the Review of the Greek world: from Minoan/ Mycenaean times to the
Hellenistic period
Answers:
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Minoan civilization
Mycenaean hegemony
Trojan war
Dorian invasions
Emergence of the polis and colonization
Persian Wars
Athenian hegemony
Peloponnesian war
Macedonian hegemony
Alexander’s empire
2. Match
 Persian Wars
 Macedonian hegemony
 Minoan civilization
 Trojan war
 Dorian invasions
 Emergence of the polis
and colonization (Archaic period)
 Mycenaean hegemony
 Alexander’s empire
 Athenian hegemony
and Peloponnesian war
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5 c (499-400 BCE)
4 c (399-300 BCE)
3000-1400 BCE
13 c (1250 BCE)
1100 BCE
8 c - 6c (734 – 580 BCE)
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1500-1100 BCE
4 c (399-300 BCE)
5 c (499-400 BCE)
4. True or false
1. F
Greek poleis in the Classical period were unified culturally and politically.
(They were not unified politically. Each polis had its own government)
2. F There was a major rivalry between Athens and Corinth (Sparta) in the Classical
period.
3. F (T) Sparta came out of the Persian Wars as a ruling power. (Athens did so too, so this
can be true or false. Athens emerged more as an imperial power than Sparta)
4. F Athens flourished after the Peloponnesian war.(Athens was defeated by the
Spartans in the Peloponnesian war and it never recovered its old status)
5. F
The only athletic competitions held in Greece were the ones that would take
place at Olympia every four years. (There were 3 other major competitions: Delphi,
Nemea and Corinth)
6. F
The Acropolis was the center of Athens’ political life. ( It was the center of
Athenian religious life and the treasury. The center of the political life was the agora -and
the Pnyx).
7. F The Greeks who founded Carthage were Phoenicians.(The Phoenicians were a
Semitic people from modern day Lebanon who established colonies along the
Mediterranean (Carthage). They were not Greeks)
8. F The Erechtheion and the Propylaia stood in the Athenian agora.(They stood in the
Acropolis)
9. F Athenian democracy was a representative democracy like ours, except that it
excluded women (and foreigners) from participating in the political process. (It was not a
representative democracy, but a direct democracy: the voters were legislators)
10. F The Greek colonies in southern Italy (Magna Graecia) were too distant from the
mainland to have any political or economic relevance. (They participated in the cultural
and plitical live- and the wars- of the rest of Greece)
11. F The Persians were militaristic people who lacked the cultural refinement, artistic
accomplishments, and political organization that we find in most of the Greek poleis.
(They ruled a vast empire and showed great political, administrative and artistic skill)
12. F Lysistrata was written by a woman.(by Aristophanes)
13. T
Lysistrata shows the freedom of speech that characterized Athenian democracy.
14. F In Classical Greece homosexuality was widespread and led to the abuse of young
boys. (homoeroticism is different from homosexuality and pederasty did not constitute a
form of abuse for the Greeks)
5. Complete the sentences:
1. Delphi was a major Panhellenic sanctuary and the most important oracle in the Ancient
World.
2. Southern Italy was called Magna Graecia because of the Greek colonies/ cities present in
the area.
3. The decoration of the Parthenon (pediment and interior frieze) honors the goddess Athena
4. The metopes of the Parthenon celebrate the Athenian’s _victory over the Persians by
representing scenes of conquest over mythological beasts and barbaric peoples (centaurs,
amazons…).
5. Pericles was the leader of Athens during the classical period and the person responsible
for commissioning the reconstruction of the Acropolis.
6. The Spartans excelled for their courage and sacrifice in the battle of Thermopylae against
the Persians.
7. The main rivals in the Peloponnesian Wars were the Athenians and the Spartans.
8. The statues of naked youths from the Archaic period are called kouroi (plural) kouros
(singular).
9. Pathos, realism, theatrical effects, exotic characters, eroticism are features of the
sculpture of the _Hellenistic period.
10. Contrapposto, naturalism, perfect harmony of the parts, and serenity of expression are
characteristics of the sculpture of the _Classical period.
11. Frontality, rigidity and Egyptian influence are characteristics of the sculpture of the
Archaic period.
12. An initiation, a dogma to be learnt, and the belief in the immortality of the human soul
are characteristics of mystery cults/ religions.