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Chapter 5 Ancient Greece Study Guide
Terms/Identify:
Minoans
Mycenaeans
Dorians
Homer
Iliad
Polis
Agora
Acropolis
Helot
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Direct Democracy
Sparta
Athens
Persian Wars
Pheidippides
Name ____________________________________
Phalanx
Pericles
Delian League
Parthenon
Peloponnesian Wars
Euclid
Archimedes
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Thucydides
Comedy
Drama
Xerxes
Battle of
Thermopylae
Battle of Marathon
Questions:
1. How did Pericles strengthen democracy in Athens? (section 3)
2. Who was Alexander the Great’s teacher and why was this important? (section 4)
3. Why was Alexandria, Egypt an important center of commerce? (section 5)
4. What caused the end of Athens’ Golden Age? (section 3)
5. How did Hellenistic sculpture differ from classical sculpture? (section 5)
6. Why do archeologists think the Trojan War actually took place? (section 1)
7. What were the important ages for boys and men in Sparta regarding military duty? (section 2)
8. What were Pericles’ three main goals?
9. What areas of the world did Alexander the Great conquer? (section 4)
10. What are the similarities between Athens and Sparta? (section 2, think about the venn diagram)
11. What cultures are part of Hellenistic culture? (section 5)
12. How did the land, sea, and climate impact the development of ancient Greece? (section 1)
13. What war happened before the Golden Age of Greece and who won and who lost? (section 2)
14. Why did the Greeks not unite into one single government? (section 1)
15. How can you compare Athenian women with Spartan women? (section 2)
16. Who fought and who won the Peloponnesian Wars? (section 3)
17. What were the consequences of the Peloponnesian Wars? (section 3)
Answer these questions using the forms of government chart in Chapter 5 Section 2:
18. What type of government did Sparta have?
19. What type of government did the Mycenaeans have?
20. What type of government did Athens have before a democracy?
21. Which type of government had a ruler who claimed divine right?
22. Which form of government was ruled by all citizens?
23. In which forms of government did heredity play no role in the selection of rulers?
Map and Map Questions on back!
Use the Map above to answer these questions:
1. What was Greece's largest island?
2. What sea separates Greece from Asia Minor?
3. What is the largest area named on the map that was not part of the Greek world?
4. Troy lay near what narrow waterway that separates Europe from Asia Minor?
5. What was the direct distance in miles between Sparta and Athens?
6. What are the longitude and latitude (to the nearest whole degree) of Olympia, the site of the first Olympic
Games?
7. The Mycenaeans traveled approximately how many miles to reach Knossos, Crete, from Mycenae?
8. What country today makes up the Asia Minor?
9. How many cities or towns are on the map?
10. What city is the farthest east?
11. What city or cities are west of Sparta on the map?
12. What is the only mountain on the map?
13. What cities are on Peloponnesus?