Transcript 1. What was the ancient Greek word for city

1. What was the ancient
Greek word for city-state?
• agora
• ostrakon
• acropolis
• polis
2. Who was the Greeks'
chief god?
• Hera
• Poseidon
• Zeus
• Athena
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3. What was the name of
the group that voted to
determine government
policy in ancient Athens?
Assembly
• Senate
• Agora
• Symposium
4. Who could be a citizen of
Athens?
• anyone who was born in Athens
• any male adult
• any male or female who had at least
on Athenian parent
• any male adult who was not a slave
and had two Athenian parents
5. The Greek epic poems
the Iliad and the Odyssey
were attributed to ...
• Homer
• Symposium
• Plato
• Aristides
6. What was the main rival
of Athens?
• Carthage
• Sparta
• Olympia
• Peloponnesia
7. What was most important
to Spartans?
• military ability
• debating skills
• artistic ability
• shipbuilding
8. How did the Olympic
Games begin?
• as a way to avoid military service
• as punishment for captured enemies
• as a funeral service for a king
• as a religious festival to honor Zeus
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9. Why was the Delian
League established by
Greek
city-states?
to battle the Peloponnesian League led by
the Spartans
• to prepare for the growing conflicts of the
Peloponnesian War
• to establish a community education
program for Athenian youth
• to defend themselves against any future
Persian invasions
10. What was an important
Greek building, a temple to
honor Athena, called?
• Acropolis
• Coliseum
• Lyceum
• Parthenon
11. Who won the
Peloponnesian War?
• Peloponesia
• Sparta
• Athens
• Rome
12. What is the Socratic
method?
• a question-and-answer system of
learning
• a way of electing members of the
Assembly
• a military strategy
• another term for the jury system
13. For Plato, one of the
goals of philosophy was to
find ...
• the explanations for natural
phenomena, such as lightning.
• the culprits responsible for the
unjust death of Socrates.
• secrets of the future in the stars.
• the perfect forms of life in the ideal
state.
14. What areas did
Alexander the Great
conquer?
• Western Europe
• Asia all the way to China
• Greece, Persian Empire, the Middle
East
• all of Africa above the equator
15. What was Rome's chief
governing body?
• Assembly
• Acropolis
• Senate
• Supreme Court
16. Which of the following
did Hannibal not do during
the Second Punic War?
• raid Saguntum
• attack Rome by land
• trek across the Alps
• sail across the Mediterranean Sea to
Italy
17. For what is Julius
Caesar remembered?
• being a great general
• craving power no matter what the
cost
• starting a civil war in Rome
• all of the above
18. Why is Caesar
Augustus considered one of
Rome's greatest leaders?
• He enlarged the Roman Empire by
conquering Gaul.
• He established peace that lasted for
a long time.
• He made Christianity a legal religion.
• all of the above
19. What was the Pax
Romana?
• the long period of peace in the
Roman Empire
• the words placed on public buildings
in ancient Rome
• the motto of the Delian League
• the highest rank in the Roman army
20. Who were Sophocles,
Euripedes, and Aeschylus?
• the most famous Spartan generals in
the Peloponnesian War
• the major Athenian dramatists
• the Roman consuls appointed by
Julius Caesar
• the heroes at the battle of
Thermopylae
21. Which of the following
was most important to
Aristotle?
• truth
• warfare
• wealth
• equality
22. What did the Edict of
Milan do?
• made Caesar a god
• ended the Punic Wars
• made Latin the official language of
the Roman Empire
• made Christianity a legal religion in
the Roman Empire
23. What do followers of
Allah and students of the
Koran (Qu'ran. believe in?
• Greek Orthodoxy
• Islam
• Christianity
• Judaism
24. What did the eastern
part of the Roman Empire
become?
• the Byzantine Empire
• Ostrogothia
• Phoenicia
• the Visigoth Empire
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25. What are the White
House, Capitol, and
Jefferson Memorial based
on? architecture
Roman and Spanish
• Byzantine architecture
• Greek and Turkish architecture
• Greek and Roman architecture