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CHAPTER 10 REVIEW
1. What were cities in ancient Greece built around? THE AGORA
2. Who were considered citizens of a Greek city-state? FREE ADULT MEN BORN IN GREECE
3. What was the central interest of the city-state of Sparta? MILITARY STRENGTH
4. Who were Sparta's army and government run by? ARISTOCRATS
5. What was one important result of the reforms made in Athens by Solon? MORE ATHENIANS
COULD TAKE PART IN GOVERNMENT
6. After Cleisthenes made changes in the government, who ran the daily business of Athens? A
COUNCIL OF 500 CHOSEN BY LOT
7. Explain who fought the battle of Marathon, and who won. ATHENS OVER THE PERSIANS
8. Explain what the Delian League was. AN ALLIANCE OF CITY-STATES AGAINST PERSIA,
LED BY ATHENS
9. What leader made Athens a center of art, philosophy, and architecture? PERICLES
10. Which city-state was the last to take over the leadership of an independent Greece? THEBES
11. Explain why the polis was considered both the geographic and political center of Greek life.
GEOGRAPHIC – EACH POLIS WAS MADE UP OF HOMES AND BUSINESSES
POLITICAL – EACH POLIS HAD ITS OWN GOVERNMENT AND LAWS
12. What did the ancient Greeks believe that being a good person meant? BE A GOOD CITIZEN
13. What class did a citizen of Spartan come from? ARISTOCRAT
14. Who conquered the Greek city-states of Ionia? PERSIANS
15. Who could serve on the council of 500? ANY ATHENIAN CITIZEN
16. Explain why the war between Athens and Sparta was called the Peloponnesian War. THE TWO
CITIES ARE LOCATED IN THE AREA OF PELOPONNESIAN
17. Explain what the phrase "a Spartan existence" probably means. SPARTAN SOLDIERS WERE NOT
FED MUCH. THEY WERE GIVEN THE BARE MINIMUM IN TERMS OF CLOTHES AND
SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS. THEY
18. Helots – ENSLAVED FARM WORKERS OF SPARTA
19. Perioeci – MERCHANTS AND ARTISANS OF SPARTA
20. Aristocrat – NOBLES WHO HELD POLICAL POWER IN SPARTA
21. Oligarchy – GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED BY A SMALL GROUP
22. Polis – GEOGRAPHIC AND POLITICAL CENTER OF GREEK LIFE
23. Constitution – RULES AND IDEAS BY WHICH A COMMUNITY IS GOVERNED
24. Agora – AN OPEN SQUARE OR MARKETPLACE
25. Acropolis – FORTIFIED HILL A THE CENTER OF A CITY-STATE
26. Democratic – FAVORING THE EQUALITY OF ALL PEOPLE
27. Assembly – GROUP THAT PASSED LAWS AND DECIDED QUESTIONS OF WAR/PEACE