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True and False
1.___ According to Diamond, the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture
was a voluntary one.
2.___ Contemporary hunters and gathers have less leisure time than current civilized
humans.
3.___ Neanderthals were replaced by hominids that have fewer biological adaptations to
cold than the Neanderthals did.
4.___ One can determine the diet of a homo sapiens sapiens by an examination of his/her
dentition.
5.___ Humans have a better heat diffusion system than other primates have.
6.___ The need to develop a large brain leads to neoteny in humans.
7.___ According to Diamond, hunters and gathers live a life that is nasty, short, and
brutish.
8.___ Agriculturalists develop specialized knowledge.
9.___ According to Diamond, agriculturalists had more malnutrition than hunters and
gathers did.
10___According to Diamond, agriculturalists had a lower life span than hunters and
gathers did.
11___ Hunters and gatherers had little specialization.
12___ Hunters and gatherers were egalitarian.
13___ Most of human existence has been spent in large, sedentary groups.
14___ Agriculturalists have detailed communal knowledge.
Matching
Identify the four phases of Minoan Culture
A. Pre-Palace Phrase
B. First Palace Phase
C. Second Palace Phase
D. Post-Palace Phase
15___ power shifts to the king, there are large palace centers, society is commercially
organized, and there are hieroglyphics
16___ Mycenaean forts were built and there was a tendency toward architectural
uniformity
17___ society was organized into clans and farming, stock-rising, shipping and
commerce were highly developed
18___ multi-storied and complex palaces were built, the masses lived well, there were
bathrooms, interior lights, and trade flourished
True or False
19___ According to Demaratus, the Greeks fight the Persians because they want to be the
only superpower
20___ According to Demaratus, the Spartans are brave out of respect for the laws and not
out of a fear of the rulers
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History of Ancient Philosophy
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21___ the Persians won the battle of Marathon because the Greeks were betrayed by a
traitor
22___ Leonides was the one who betrayed the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopolyae
23___ Xerxes thought that the Greeks would flee when confronted with his superior
numbers
24___ Xerxes thought that freedom was a disadvantage for the Greeks
25___ Xerxes thought that a single master is what makes men courageous
26___ the Persians won the Battle of Marathon
27___ the Athenians defeated the Persian navy in the Battle of Salamis
28___ the Athenians defeated the Spartans in the Sicilian Expedition
29___ the Peloponnesian War was between Athens and Sparta
30___ the First Peloponnesian War was won by Athens
True or False According to Pericles' Funeral Oration
31___ Athens copies its governmental institutions from others
32___ Athenian education requires laborious exercises and not ease
33___ Athens needs great alliances in order to win at war
34___ the goods of others do not flow freely in Athens
35___ poverty prevents advancement in Athens
36___ the children of veterans killed in war are maintained at public expense
37___ Athens is open to foreigners
38___ Athens needs great alliances in order to win at war
39___ Athenians are courageous from ignorance and hesitate upon reflection
True or False
40___ Ancient Greek was not an Indo-European language
41___ The Minoans did not speak an Indo-European language
42___ The Minoans were polytheistic and syncretistic
43___ The Mycenaeans had a religion based on the Mother Goddess
44___ The Minoans were violent with a culture of battle and conquest
True or False. According to Pericles
45___ freedom is an important Athenian value
46___ courage is not an important Athenian value
47___ democracy was an important Spartan value
48___ wealth was an important Athenian value
49___ leisure was an important Spartan value
50___ openness was an important Athenian value
51___ respect for the law as an important Athenian value
52___ reflecting before acting is an important Spartan value
53___ adaptability is an important Athenian value
54___ enjoying the pleasures of life is an important Spartan value
55___self-sacrifice is not an important Athenian value
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Can you identify these important people?
a. his familiarity with the Persian military led him to be elected general
b. instituted economic and constitutional reforms to lessen class conflict
c. rallied the masses when the exiled aristocrats attempted to gain control of Athens
d. persuaded the Athenians to build up their navy, which allowed them to defeat the
Persians
e. put down revolts among the Greeks and conquered the Persians
f. codified Athenian law and placed punishment of homicide in the hands of the state
g. first Persian ruler who attempted to conquer Greece
h. pushed ahead with Athenian imperialism and sent the troops against Melos
i. reorganized the Macedonian army and then subdued Greece
j. tyrant who took control of Athens after Solon
k. son of Darius and was unable to vanquish the Greeks
l. develop the Delian League, instituted reforms, and built buildings on the Acropolis
_____ 56. Draco
_____ 57. Solon
_____ 58. Peisistratus
_____ 59. Cleisthenes
_____ 60. Pericles
_____ 61. Darius
_____ 62. Xerxes
_____ 63. Miltiades
_____ 64. Alcibiades
_____ 65. Themistocles
_____ 66. Philip
_____ 67. Alexander
Identify the following economic characteristics of Minoan or Mycenaean society
A. Minoan
B. Mycenaean
68___ the king accumulated vast wealthy and didn't share it with others in society
69___ farmed, fished, and traded
70___ farmed with tenants or slaves
71___ world's first seafaring civilization
72___ located on the island of Crete
73___ located on mainland Greece
74___ had hilltop fortresses-an acropolis
75___ peaceful
76___ women participated in every occupation and trade available to men
77___ had more social equality than most ancient civilizations
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Identify the following economic characteristics of Spartan or Athenian society
A. Spartan
B. Athenian
78___ farmed with tenants or slaves
79___ developed a sea-based empire
80___ wine and olive oil made them rich
81___ had helots who worked for the polis
82___ had no commercial class
83___ abolished debt slavery
84___ death in battle was the highest honor
85___ women had to be strong to have strong children so they wrestled, boxed, and raced
against men
86___ held the ideals of discipline, simplicity, and self-denial
87___ate in a communal mess
88___ changed from monarchy to oligarchy to democracy
89___ were outnumbered 10 to 1 by their serfs
List three benefits of the agriculturalists way of life.
90.
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List three drawbacks of the agriculturalists way of life.
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Identify
Delian League
Language family
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__________ is a group of related languages with a common ancestor
Languages in the same family share
1.
2.
The Delian League was:
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According to Pericles’; descriptions of the institutions of Athens, there exists
_____________ to all and alike in their private disputes but the claim of __________ is
also recognized.
According to Pericles, Athenians are prevented from doing wrong by respect for the
_____________.
According to Pericles, Athenians are lovers of the __________ in their tastes.
According to Pericles, the noblest of all tombs for brave men is ______________.
According to Pericles, not __________ but _________ is the delight of men when they
are old and useless.
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