Download Chapter 5 Section 1-4 True/False Indicate whether the statement is

Chapter 5 Section 1-4
True/False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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1. From artwork historians have learned that Minoan life was tied to the sea.
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2. Greek drama had its roots in Athens and was created as part of religious festivals honoring Dionysus, the god
of wine and celebration.
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3. Democratic city-states were the basic political unit in the Hellenistic world.
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4. After the death of Alexander the Great, Seleucus became the pharaoh of Egypt.
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5. Alexander the Great built the largest empire the world had ever seen.
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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6. After the fall of Mycenaean society
a. the city of Troy was destroyed in battle.
b. Minoan society emerged on Crete.
c. the first Greeks appeared on the Greek mainland.
d. Greek civilization almost disappeared.
7. The city-state of Sparta was characterized by
a. democratic institutions.
b. an emphasis on temple worship.
c. an emphasis on warfare.
d. dependence upon the sea.
8. Which of the following gods or goddesses was the deity of war?
a. Athena
c. Hera
b. Apollo
d. Ares
9. Which of the following leaders set the stage for Athenian democracy by breaking up the power of noble
families?
a. Peisistratus
c. Solon
b. Cleisthenes
d. Draco
10. What was the result of the first Persian invasion?
a. The Persians won but Darius was killed in the battle.
b. The Athenians won.
c. The Spartans won.
d. Ionia won its independence.
11. The Battle of Salamis was significant because it
a. finally exacted revenge for Darius’s defeat in Athens.
b. made a small force of Spartans martyrs for the Greek cause.
c. marked the first time the Spartans and Athenians cooperated in battle.
d. stranded the Persian army in Greece without naval support.
____ 12. Study the map titled “The Peloponnesian War.” According to the map, which side controlled much of the
territory surrounding the Aegean Sea during the Peloponnesian War?
a. the Delian League
c. neutral states
b. the Peloponnesian League
d. Persia
____ 13. Study the map titled “The Peloponnesian War.” What statement about the Peloponnesian War is best
supported by the map?
a. Athens and Sparta were both members of the Delian League.
b. The Persian Empire sent a navy to aid Athens.
c. Athens needed ships to communicate with its allies.
d. Ionia refused to enter the Delian League.
“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of
philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue
either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their
evils—no, nor the human race.”
—from the Republic
____ 14. Read the excerpt from the Republic. Who was the writer of this work?
a. Socrates
c. Pericles
b. Plato
d. Aristotle
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a. Herodotus
c. Thucydides
b. Homer
d. Zenophon
Which of the following playwrights wrote the tragedy about Oedipus?
a. Aeschylus
c. Aristophanes
b. Sophocles
d. Euripides
Greek murals or wall paintings often
a. realistically portrayed daily life.
b. showed scenes from the Iliad and the Odyssey.
c. illustrated the daily news.
d. used Christian imagery.
“What is truth?” is a question associated with
a. Socrates.
c. Aristotle.
b. Homer.
d. Aristophanes.
Who took the throne in Macedonia after King Philip II was assassinated?
a. Alexander
c. Darius II
b. Philip III
d. Archimedes
In the Hellenistic world, the city-state was replaced as the main political unit by the
a. kingdom.
c. assembly.
b. polis.
d. military.
Alexander’s empire did not grow any larger because
a. his generals began fighting for power.
c. his soldiers wanted to return home.
b. the Hindu Kush defeated him.
d. he reached all his goals.
New schools of philosophy developed during the Hellenistic period, in part because
a. people sought ways to explain the violence and bloodshed of the period.
b. people rejected the Greek gods.
c. Alexander brought philosophers together from all over his empire.
d. classical philosophy absorbed ideas from other cultures.
Which of the following gods or goddesses was the deity of wisdom?
a. Athena
c. Hera
b. Apollo
d. Ares
Why did the Persian emperor Darius attack the Greek mainland?
a. to gain control of Greece’s vast natural resources
b. to exact revenge for the Athenians’ victory at Marathon
c. to kidnap Helen, the beautiful queen of Athens
d. to punish Athens for aiding the Ionians in their revolt against Persian rule
Macedonia was able to take control of all of Greece in the 340s BC because
a. the Persian Empire had soundly defeated Athens and Sparta.
b. a terrible plague had weakened Athens and Sparta.
c. a long cycle of warfare left all of Greece vulnerable to attack.
d. Xerxes was a brilliant commander of the Macedonian army.
Completion
Complete each statement.
26. Two distinct cultures developed in early Greece, the Minoans and the ____________________.
27. The ____________________, or city-state, was the basic political unit in Greece.
28. Many heroes of Greek stories were brought to tragic end by their ____________________, or great pride.
29. The ____________________ taught that people should seek out pleasure and try to avoid pain.
30. The Macedonian king ____________________ conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta
before his assassination.
Matching
Select the letter of the term, person, or place that matches each description. Some answers will not be used.
a. Euclid
j. Minoans
b. Cynicism
k. Philip II
c. frescoes
l. Draco
d. Darius
m. reason
e. The Histories
n. agora
f. Mycenaeans
o. Antigonus
g. the Iliad
p. phalanx
h. helots
q. Xerxes
i. drama
r. oligarchy
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The art of playwriting
Public marketplace where people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics
Spartan slaves
Led the second Persian invasion of Greece
The richest source of information about the Minoan way of life
Clear and ordered thinking
Rule by a few individuals
Philosophy that rejected pleasure, wealth, and social responsibility
Conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta
Considered to be the first Greeks