Ancient Greece
What geographic characteristic provided Greece with a link to the outside world?
Seas
In ancient Greece, who seized power illegally?
Tyrant
Who wanted to increase the public payroll in Athens?
Pericles
Who warned the Greeks about the Macedonian King Philip and his army?
Demosthenes
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta
What separated the different regions within Greece?
Mountains
What was the most severe restriction on democracy in Athens under Cleisthenes?
Which members of the society were considered citizens
What term is used today for the art of Athens during the Age of Pericles?
Classical
Who built an empire that stretched to India?
Alexander
Which philosopher was condemned to death for "corrupting the youth of Athens" and "neglecting the city's gods"?
Socrates
Who preserved and spread aspects of the Minoan culture?
Mycenaeans
Which people in Greece emphasized duty, strength, and discipline?
Spartans
What are three characteristics of “classical art”?
Balance, proportion, and order
What is the name of the culture that blends Greek with Egyptian, Persian, and Indian cultures?
Hellenistic
Who wrote The Republic, a book that set forth his vision of a perfectly governed society?
Plato
Who moved into the Greek world and reigned for about 400 years and left no written record?
Dorians
What is a phalanx?
Military formation
Sparta's declaration of war against Athens began which war?
Peloponnesian
What city was the center of commerce and culture in the Hellenistic world?
Alexandria
Which school of philosophy held that the universe is controlled by a divine power and argued that people should lead virtuous lives in harmony with natural law?
Stoicism
It appears that, for the next 400 years after the Dorians migrated into Greece, the Greeks somehow lost their ability to use
a written language.
What battle formation produced the most powerful fighting force in the ancient world?
Phalanx
What did more than one-third of the Athenians, including Pericles, die of during the Peloponnesian War?
Disease
Who wrote the well-known book Elements, which is the basis for modern geometry?
Euclid
Which school of thought held that the universe is governed by gods who were not interested in people and the only real objects are those that can be perceived by the five senses?
Epicureanism