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World History: Study Guide Ch 5-6 Greeks
Define the terms, people and places.
1. Frescoes-
2. Polis3. Acropolis4. Agora5. Minoans6. Mycenaeans7. Myths8. Oracles9. Aristocracies10. Hoplite-
11. Tyrants12. Popular Govedrnment13. Democracy14. Iliad15. Odyssey16. Homer17. Olypmic Games18. Helots-
19. Ephors-
20. Metics21. Archons22. Direct Democracy23. Repsentative Democracy24. Draco25. Solon26. Peisistratus27. Cleisthenes28. Terracing29. Import30. Pedagogue31. Ethics32. Rhetoric33. Sappho34. Sophists35. Persian Wars36. Battle of Marathon37. Battle of Thermopylae38. Themistocles39. Delian League-
40. Pericles41. Pelopnnesian War42. Thermopylae-
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1. How did geography influence Greek History?
2. How did the Minoans and Mycenaeans affect Greek civilization?
3. How did Greek city-states develop?
4. In what ways were the Greek city-states alike and different?
5. How did life in ancient Greece change after the fall of the Mycenaeans?
6. Why was the development of the polis important in ancient Greece?
7. Why was the work of the poet Homer important?
8. What were the main religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Greeks?
9. How did the governments of the Greek city-states change over time?
10. What were the main aspects of Greek culture?
11. Why did the rulers of governments in te Greek city-states change?
12. Why might Homer’s work have been important to later generations?
13. How did the Greeks view the role of religion in their lives?
14. What kind of society developed in Sparta?
15. How did democray develop in Athens?
16. How did the need for defense influence the way the Spartan government ruled its people?
17. Which leader did the most to help lead Athens to democracy?
18. How did Sparta build its mitilitary society?
19. What changes led to Athen’s aristocratic government becoming a democracy?
20. How does direct democracy differ from respresentive democracy?
21. What activities formed the basis of Athen’s economy?
22. What were Athenian family life and education like?
23. What goods did Athenian farmers, metics, and traders produce or handle?
24. How did life differ for men and women and for boys and girls in Athens?
25. How did Athenian education fulifull the Greek ideal of a sound mind in a healthy body?
26. Why did trade become the most important part of the Greek economy?
27. What role did colonies play in the rise of Greek trade?
28. In what ways did Greek society show the attitude that women were valued less than men?
29. How did the Persian Wars begin and what were their results?
30. What effect did Pericles ley-states unite during and after the Persian Wars?
31. Why did the Peloponnesian War begin and what were its results?
32. Why did the Greek city-states unite during and after the Persian Wars?
33. What changes did Pericles bring to Athens and to the rest of Greece?
34. How did the Greek victory over the Persians help bring about an Athenian empire?
35. Why did paying officeholders a salary widen Athenian democracy during the Age of Pericles?
36. How did the many differences between Sparta and Athens lead to the Peloponnesian War?
37. Who were the allowed to be citizens in Athens and in Sparta?
38. Why did Sparta go to war with Athens?
39. How did life in the city-states of Sparta and Athens differ?
40. How did Sparta help Athens during the Persian Wars?