Unit 5 Review

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Unit 5 Review

• Ancient Greece

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What was one result of Ancient Greeks not having
enough farmland to feed themselves?

• a. their government was weak
• b. they gave up their religion
• c. they traded to get what they needed
• d. they lived peacefully with other Greeks

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What was the main effect, on daily life, from
Greeces mountainous geography?

• a. communities were isolated
• b. roads were paved
• c. bandits were uncommon
• d. there were many large plots of farmland

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Where were the earliest Greek colonies
established?

• a. Northern Africa
• b. Eastern Europe
• c. Western Asia Minor
• d. Southern Italy

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What method of travel did Athenians master,
helping Athens to become a center of learning and
trade?

• a. chariots
• b. horseback riding
• c. sailing
• d. flight

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Which type of government has one ruler with
inherited power and passes his leadership to his
son?

• a. democracy
• b. monarchy
• c. oligarchy
• d. tyranny

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How are laws developed a monarchy?

• a. assembly voted on them
• b. the king made them
• c. the aristocrats made them
• d. there were no laws in a monarchy

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Which of the following best describes a
difference between a king and a tyrant?

• a. A king is elected, but a tyrant seizes power.
• b. A king is elected, but a tyrant inherits
  power.
• c. A king inherits power, but a tyrant seizes it.
  
• d. A king leads the assembly, but a tyrant
  disbands its.

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Which of the following best describes democracy
in Athens?

• a. citizens elected representatives to make
  decisions.
• b. citizens voted on proposed laws.
• c. widows replaced their dead husbands in the
  assembly
• d. citizens supported oligarchs, who made
  decisions.

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In a monarchy, who usually becomes king when the
current king dies?

• a. the most powerful aristocrat
• b. the leader chosen by the people
• c. the kings oldest son
• d. the head of the army

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What trend took place under Greek oligarchies?

• a. the farmers became richer
• b. the poor became poorer
• c. the army became stronger
• d.  the aristocrats became weaker

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What made many Greek tyrants popular?

• a. they promised more rights to the poor
• b. they gave more land to the aristocrats
• c. they conquered more city-states
• d. they forced oligarchs to be fairer

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Where did Athenian women have the most influence?

• a. the assembly
• b. in the schools
• c. at home
• d. at the market (agora)

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What was the main purpose of Spartan education?

• a. to prepare soldiers
• b. to prepare skilled craftspeople
• c. to prepare young athletes
• d. to prepare active citizens

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Why did Alexander seem to accept many different
religions?

• a. he was a very religious man
• b. he believed in the Mandate of Heaven
• c. he wanted loyalty from people he conquered
• d. he hoped all the gods would help him

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The Greek city-states fought against each other
in the Peloponnesian War. What was the major
effect of the war?

• a. Sparta was able to conquer Athens and become
  the ruling state in Greece
• b. Greek city-states were weak and divided so
  King Phillip II of Macedonia was able to conquer
  Greece.
• c. Athens was able to enter a golden age
• d. Thebes was able to develop astronomy

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Alexander the Great helped the Greek city-states
unite by

• a. forcing them to speak the same language
• b. taking away many of their freedoms
• c. focusing their attention on a common enemy
• d. having Spartas leaders lead all of Greece

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After his military victory, how did Alexander
keep his power in Persia?

• a. he had the Persians worship Greek gods
• b. he adopted many Persian practices
• c. he had the Persians read Egyptian books
• d. he adopted a Persian boy to succeed him

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What happened to Alexanders empire after he died?

• a. Alexanders son, Phillip took over.
• b. Greece conquered Macedonia
• c. Alexanders empire fell apart and was split
  amongst his generals
• d. Sparta won the Peloponnesian War

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Why did Alexander found cities like Alexandria?

• a. to establish colonies
• b. to serve as capital cities
• c. to honor his victories
• d.  to spread Greek culture

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With which field are Pythagoras and Euclid
associated?

• a. Chemistry
• b. Geometry
• c. Linguistics
• d. Literature

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The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece were held
every four years to

• a. celebrate victory over the Persians
• b. honor the Greek god Zeus
• c. choose the leaders of each city-state
• d. decide which city-state would rule Greece

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To which of the following did Greeks make major
contributions?

• a. astronomy and religion
• b. religion and medicine
• c. cooking and medicine
• d. language and government

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What system did ancient Greek geographers develop?

• a. geometry and geography
• b. writing
• c. longitude and latitude
• d. dissection

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In Ancient Greek Settlements, governments, tended
to develop in a predictable order. Which form of
government usually came first?

• a. democracy
• b. monarchy
• c. oligarchy
• d. tyranny

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Which of the following describes Socrates?

• a. developed a teaching method using questions,
  most dominant thinker, agora speaker, and forced
  to drink poison
• b. encouraged creative expression of knowledge
  through plays, poetry, and songs
• c. expert in several fields of science, politics,
  and economics
• d. conquered most of the known world, spread
  Greek culture, and brought ideas and philosophies
  back to Greece

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Which of the following describes Alexander the
Great?

• a. developed a teaching method using questions,
  most dominant thinker, agora speaker, and forced
  to drink poison
• b. encouraged creative expression of knowledge
  through plays, poetry, and songs
• c. expert in several fields of science, politics,
  and economics
• d. conquered most of the known world, spread
  Greek culture, and brought ideas and philosophies
  back to Greece

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Which of the following describes Aristotle?

• a. developed a teaching method using questions,
  most dominant thinker, agora speaker, and forced
  to drink poison
• b. encouraged creative expression of knowledge
  through plays, poetry, and songs
• c. expert in several fields of science, politics,
  and economics
• d. conquered most of the known world, spread
  Greek culture, and brought ideas and philosophies
  back to Greece

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Which of the following describes Plato?

• a. developed a teaching method using questions,
  most dominant thinker, agora speaker, and forced
  to drink poison
• b. encouraged creative expression of knowledge
  through plays, poetry, and songs
• c. expert in several fields of science, politics,
  and economics
• d. conquered most of the known world, spread
  Greek culture, and brought ideas and philosophies
  back to Greece

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Greece can best be described as a ________

• a. peninsula
• b. isthmus
• c. delta
• d. plateau

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How did someone become a member of the Athens
Council of 500?

• a. he inherited the position
• b. he was chosen by a random drawing
• c.  he was elected by citizens
• d. he overthrew a council member

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Which of the following is evidence that Spartan
women had more rights than Athenian women?

• a. Spartan women could own their own property
• b. Spartan women had the most influence in their
  home
• c. Spartan women could speak in the Assembly
• d. Spartan women served in the army

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The Persian Wars lasted from 490 to 479 B.C.E..
How were the Greeks able to drive the Persians
from their land and preserve their independence?

• a. The Greeks paid tribute in order to make peace
  with the Persians
• b. The Greek city-states banded together against
  the Persians
• c. The Greeks launched a naval attack into
  Persian territory
• d. The Greek gods intervened and destroyed the
  Persian army

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What best describes Athens after the Persians
Wars?

• a. Athens was divided into separate territories
  
• b. Sparta took control of the city and the
  citizens were sold into slavery
• c. Athens was destroyed, rebuilt, then entered
  its Golden Age
• d. Athens entered the Dark Ages

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Which best describes the government in Sparta?

• a. their government was a Democracy
• b. their government was an Oligarchy
• c. the Assembly was made up of males and females
  
• d. it was very similar to Athenian government

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From what direction would you travel from Athens
to get to Mt. Olympus?

• a. north
• b. east
• c. south
• d. west

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Who was believed to be the most powerful Greek
god?

• a. Poseidon
• b. Athena
• c. Zeus
• d. Hermes

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Who was the Greek god of the underworld?

• a. Poseidon
• b. Hades
• c. Zeus
• d. Hera

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Greeks who lived along side of the coast and made
their living by the sea would most likely have
prayed to ___________ for protection.

• a. Zeus
• b. Poseidon
• c. Hera
• d. Athena

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Who was the wife of Zeus?

• a. Zeus
• b. Poseidon
• c. Hera
• d. Athena

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Who was the sister of Zeus and goddess of the
family?

• a. Hera
• b. Hestia
• c. Hermes
• d. Demeter

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Who was the sister of Zeus and goddess of the
agriculture?

• a. Hera
• b. Hestia
• c. Hermes
• d. Demeter

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Who was the Greek god of war?

• a. Ares
• b. Mars
• c. Zeus
• d. Poseidon

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FTD florists use a Greek god of their symbol
because they want people to believe their
deliveries are fast and accurate. Whom do they
use for their symbol?

• a. Ares
• b. Zeus
• c. Hermes
• d. Mercury

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The Greek goddess of wisdom and war is they
symbol for what Greek city-state?

• a. Sparta
• b. Thessolonica
• c. Corinth
• d. Athens

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The Greek goddess of hunting was ____________

• a. Artemis
• b. Ares
• c. Athena
• d. Kenna

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People in Ancient Greece who fell in love might
believe they were under the spell of __________,
the Greek goddess of love.

• a. Athena
• b. Aphrodite
• c. Ares
• d. Artemis

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Because of his leadership, __________________ is
considered to be the savior of Athens.

• a. Socrates
• b. Aristotle
• c. Plato
• d. Pericles

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The _____________ is a temple dedicated to the
worship of Athena.

• a. Acropolis
• b. Parthenon
• c. Pantheon
• d. Oracle

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What was the prize for winners at the theater?

• a. wine and cheese
• b. olive branches and other prizes
• c. money
• d. land

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Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

• a. Socrates
• b. Plato
• c. Homer
• d. Shakespeare

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The sporting event that consisted of five (5)
events at the Olympic Games was named the ___

• a. pentagon
• b. pentathlon
• c. pentagram
• d. marathon

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Alexander the Great was from

• a. Athens
• b. Sparta
• c. Macedonia
• d. Alexandria

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Alexander the Great was the son of

• a. Darius
• b. Xerxes
• c. Phillip II
• d. Zeus

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How did Alexander the Greats father die?

• a. old age
• b. stabbed/murdered
• c. poison
• d. plague

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Who was the main teacher of Alexander the Great?

• a. Aristotle
• b. Plato
• c. Socrates
• d. Pericles

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In what city did Alexander the Great die?

• a. Athens
• b. Sparta
• c. Alexandria
• d. Babylon

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Alexander the Great is best known for his

• a. respect of other religions
• b. respect of other cultures
• c. world conquest
• d. all of the above

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What was the homeland of Ulysses?

• a. Athens
• b. Sparta
• c. Ithaca
• d. Corinth

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Which Greek god was angry with Ulysses?

• a. Poseidon
• b. Zeus
• c. Athena
• d. Apollo

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Which Greek god helped Ulysses?

• a. Poseidon
• b. Zeus
• c. Athena
• d. Apollo