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AKS 32: The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (PBS DVD)
Parts One-Four: 45 minutes
Circle the correct answer:
1. The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization is narrated by Liam Neeson / Sancho Pico
2. In 570 BC, the future Athenian ruler Cleisthenes was born an Egyptian / aristocrat
3. Athens was built around the Acropolis / Olympia
4. The life of an Athenian: “Peaches and Cream” / “Nasty, Brutish and Short”
5. Life expectancy was 15 years / 50 years
6. Athens common people: “They had no part or share in anything” – Aristotle / Hippocrates
7. Greece did not have a significant mountain range / river system or fertile plains as did Egypt and
Persia
8. “It was impossible / necessary for a single ruler to dominate” the rugged land of Greece
9. For over a 1000 years, Argos / Athens had stood as a dominant city-state since the time of the
Trojan Wars. Carinthia was most well known for its trade / military.
10. The Spartans were brought up from birth to be farmers / soldiers.
11. Argos / Sparta was always a military threat.
12. The two most famous tales the bards sung were The Iliad and The Odyssey / The Homeric.
13. In the middle of the sixth century BC a Spartan / Tyrant seized power in Athens
14. Pisistratus lowered taxes and offered free loans to allow farmers to be more prosperous /
indebted.
15. “Like Ants or Frogs around a pond” – Plato’s description of the Potters / the Greeks.
16. A potter in Athenian society (just above “scum”), worked often in the red light district and were
motivated to “out-do” / “slay” each other.
17. In 527 BC Pisistratus died and his brother / son took over as new Tyrant of Athens.
18. In 514 BC Hippias’ brother was elected king /murdered. Aristotle –“he became embittered and
suspicious of everybody”
19. Once every 40 years / 4 years Greeks would gather to compete in athletic skilled events.
20. The first Olympic games were contested in 545 BC / 776BC in honor of Zeus.
21. “..a chance for any Greeks to display aristocratic / heroic qualities..”
22. The Olympic competitions included each of the following events except:
Chariot racing / running / swimming / wrestling / boxing
23. The Olympics were a meritocracy: based on skill / birth right (where anyone could win).
24. Isagarus used the Carthagians / Spartans to gain control of Athens.
25. Cleisthenes was cast out of the city along with 70 / 700 other Aristocratic families.
26. In 508 BC the last of the Spartans / Tyrants was removed by a revolution of the common people.
Cleistenes was recalled from exile and asked to form a government. He formed the ancestor to
modern theocracy / democracy based on a single vote system and created the rule of the people
through the Athenian assembly.
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AKS 32: The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (PBS DVD)
Parts Five-Nine: 55 minutes “Persian War & the Golden Age of Athens”
27. 26. 18 years after the founding of Democracy (490 BC) Phidipedes / Darius runs the first Marathon
28. 27. The Persian Empire stretched from Italy / Turkey to India / China
29. 28. Darius / Xerses and the Persians threatened the Greek way of life: “Struggle between freedom and
slavery”
30. 29. The Athenians fielded 10,000 Hoplites to face the Persian threat (20,000 strong) at Marathon / Salamis.
31. 30. Phidipedes ran 140 / 26.5 miles in two days to be rejected by the Spartans in a call for help.
32. 31. Themisticles showed himself at the Athenian Baths / Assembly to be one of history’s greatest orators.
33. 32. Clippers / Triremes were fast and maneuverable ships, designed for ramming the opposition.
34. 33. Darius died in 486 BC and was followed by his son Pericles / Xerses. “I will burn it (Athens) to the ground”
35. 34. In 480 BC news reached Greece that the Persian army had set out to conquer the Assyrians / Greeks.
36. 35. Themisticles ordered the evacuation of Athens, and the fleet of Triremes to gather at Piraeus / Salamis.
37. 36. The Persians burned the Parthenon / Acropolis of the abandoned city of Athens.
38. 37. A Greek messenger suggested to the Persians: “The Delians / Greeks are afraid and plan to slip away..”
39. 38. Xerses watched his fleet defeated by the Greek triremes from his Golden Throne that he had sitting on the
acropolis / shore in front of the battle.
40. 39. The Athenians founded the Spartan / Delian League in order to prevent another Persian incursion.
41. 40. Once a year the Athenians would vote and expel someone (Ostracism). Themisticles was ostracized
because he was “a traitor” / “too big for his boots.” He died in exile in Persia.
42. 41. Pericles was leader of Athens / Persia at the height of its power. He was an aristocrat ruling a
democracy.
43. 42. “All kinds of enterprises should be created…source of ever lasting fame” – Themisticles / Pericles vision.
44. 43. After 20 years of remaining in ruins, Pericles planned to restore the acropolis / Parthenon.
45. 44. The Parthenon took fifty / fifteen years to construct. It contained a fourteen / forty foot statue of Athena.
46. 45. Athens became the architectural / intellectual center of the ancient world.
47. 46. “Our whole city is an education…” – Pericles / Aristotle
48. 47. Greek comedies / tragedies showed great men falling from the heights, unable to avoid their fate.
49. 48. 431 BC, Pericles suggests war with Athen’s oldest enemy, the city-state of Sparta / Persia.
50. 49. The assembly embraced Pericles plan. “Peace was an interruption of war / Olympic games.”
51. 50. Piraeus / Salamis was the harbor of Athens, connected by a long wooden walled highway.