Download Chapters 29-31 Study Guide Answers

Chapters 29-31 Study Guide Answers
1. The Athenians started new construction after the Persian wars because
their city had been totally destroyed
2. Pericles was famous for leading the Athens government during the Golden
Age.
3. Parthenon was built to honor the goddess Athena.
4. The priestess oracle of Delphi was believe to speak words that came from
Apollo.
5. The Athenians believed that the gods lived on Mt. Olympus.
6. The triangle at the top front of the temple is called a Pediment.
7. The men were able to play all the characters in ancient Greek theater
because they wore masks.
8. Philosophy means the love of wisdom .
9. Socrates was arrested for questions the dishonored the gods.
10.The Peloponnesian wars between Sparta and Athens ended in a Spartan
victory
11.Because of the division between Greek City-States, Phillip II was able to
conquer Greece.
12.Alexander was called “Great” because he conquered a huge area.
13.Alexander was able to unite the Greeks by giving them a common enemy.
14.Alexander demonstrated the influence of his Greek teacher, Aristotle in his
love of Greek culture
15.Alexander used religion to gain the loyalty of the areas he conquered by
honoring their gods.
16. The ram’s horn is a sign of a god, and Alexander wanted all Greeks to
accept him as the son of Zeus.
17.Alexander stopped his conquest of norther India because his soldiers refuse
to fight any longer.
18.After Alexander died the generals fought for control his empire crumbled.
19. The alphabet is derived from the 1st two letters of the Greek alphabet.
20. Some ideas from ancient Greek democracy are that juries were made of
citizens and all citizens voted on every issue.
21. Two kinds of Greek Drama were Comedy and Tragedy.
22.Hippocrates believe that diseases had natural causes and taught his
students to observe their patients.
23.Greek astronomers were first to introduce the idea that the Earth moves
around the sun.
24.Pythagoras and Euclid wrote about lines, circles , and squares.
25.Todays theaters are like the ones in ancient Greece because the rows rise
so people can hear and see.
26.The purpose of the first Olympics were to honor Zeus.
27. Aristotle created a system to divide plants and animals into groups.
28. SHORT RESPONSE: Pick a modern worldcontribution from ancient Greece
in Chp. 31. Tell how it was develop and used then. Give a specific example
and explain. Tell how it used and has changed today. Give a specific
examples. Concluding sentence should restate how ancient Greeks
achievement continue to affect us today.