Quiz: The Greek City-State
HIEU 201 Week 2/Module 2
The Dark Age refers to
a. a period of economic chaos but artistic and intellectual growth.
b. a period of transition between Mycenaean and Hellenic civilizations.
c. a period of military chaos but economic prosperity in the Greek world.
d. a period of migration of Greek tribes away from fertile lands to the mountains and the abandonment of Aegean
islands.
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The work of Homer
a. contains the origins of the notion that human excellence was a combination of thought and action.
b. celebrates war without reflecting on its tragic character.
c. rejects military prowess and the pursuit of glory and fame as criteria for human excellence.
d. depicts the gods as primarily responsible for the good or evil that befell human beings.
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The Olympian religion that emerged in ancient Greece
a. was monotheistic, worshipping Zeus as the only god.
b. centered on a powerful professional priesthood that could dictate absolute truths.
c. played no role in the lives of the Greek people after the development of philosophy.
d. did not put an end to the worship of local gods or the practicing of local rituals.
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The polis
a. was comprised mostly of non-citizens, with a small number of citizens who made the laws.
b. resulted from the disintegration of much larger political units.
c. could be very large, comprising vast territories and huge populations.
d. was comprised mostly of full citizens, with a small number of non-citizens who could not participate in lawmaking.
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number of citizens who made the laws.)
Spartan society was militaristic primarily because
a. Spartan conquest of Messenia was the first step in the Spartans' plan to conquer all of Greece.
b. Sparta relied on overwhelming military superiority to maintain dominance over the majority of its society.
c. the Spartans had to defend the Helots from the(perioikoi.
d. Spartans were forced to defend themselves from the Persians, who threatened an invasion of the Peloponnesus.
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maintain dominance over the majority of its society.)
Solon's reforms
a. excluded aristocrats from political life.
b. undermined the rights of the traditional aristocracy.
c. excluded the poor from political participation.
d. opened the highest offices to the poorest Athenians.
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The Persians attacked Greece in the fifth century B.C. because
a. they wished to add the riches of Greece to their empire.
b. Athens had aided a revolt by the Ionians, and the Persians wished to punish them for their interference.
c. they wanted to crush the Athenian democracy before its ideas spread to peoples in the Persian Empire.
d. Sparta and the Peloponnesian League were threatening to invade Asia Minor, which borders on Persia.
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The Athenian navy delivered a decisive Greek victory against the Persians in 480 B.C.
at
a. Plataea.
b. Thermopylae.
c. Marathon.
d. Salamis.
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Pericles was
a. a military leader who was credited with saving Athens during the Persian Wars.
b. a tyrant who rejected Athenian democracy.
c. the leading figure in Athenian political life during the middle of the fifth century B.C.
d. a Spartan who admired Athenian democracy.
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According to Demosthenes
a. the Greeks faced decline if they did not show contrition to the gods.
b. Athens faced decline if it pursued too much cooperation with other city-states rather than pursue its own particular
interests.
c. the Greeks faced decline if they did not unite against their common enemy, Macedonia.
d. the Greeks faced decline because their enemies loved freedom more than they did.
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Artifacts and archaeological evidence of the Minoans on Crete indicate
a. magnificent fortified palaces with extensive defensive structures that served as political centers.
b. a warlike culture that rejected artistic and cultural pursuits.
c. a substantial export trade from Crete to Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece.
d. a civilization that predated that of the Mycenaeans.
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Minor, and Greece.)
Which of the following is NOT a feature of Mycenaean civilization?
a. It had a political system that can be seen as an early form of democracy.
b. It owed a considerable debt to Minoan civilization on Crete.
c. It disintegrated due to constant warfare between its various kingdoms.
d. It reached its height in the period from 1400 to 1230 B.C.
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The earliest examples of the polis
a. were small city-states based on tribal allegiances.
c. evolved from rational origins to theocracy.
d. united all Greeks under the rule of a divine kingship.
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The mature polis was a
a. community in which laws were seen as deriving from divine rulers.
b. community in which religion played no role whatsoever.
c. self-governing community that expressed the will of free citizens.
d. community designed to express the will of the gods.
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In contrast to Sparta
a. Athens defined freedom as the independence of the fatherland.
b. Athens possessed no navy.
c. Athens was a land power and exclusively agricultural.
d. Athens valued the political freedom of the individual.
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By Dik, Solon meant
a. personal excellence in warfare.
b. the arrogance of the tyrants he opposed.
c. the principle of justice that is that underlies all human community.
d. the obligation of all Athenians to take part in the defense of their city.
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The Delian League
a. was an instrument of Spartan economic expansion.
b. was an alliance of city-states dominated by the largest polis, Athens.
c. grew primarily because states voluntarily placed themselves under the protection of Athenian military power.
d. was created by rivals to Athens within the Peloponnesian League.
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The mature democracy that evolved in Athens by the fifth century B.C.
a. ensured the political equality of all people in the polis.
b. granted political power to an Assembly made up of all adult male citizens.
c. chose all offices, even the most critical, by luck of the draw.
d. prevented the emergence of strong political leaders who could influence the policies of the state.
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Athenian women were
a. considered the equals of their husbands.
b. considered the wards of their husbands.
c. able to hold office but could not vote.
d. often highly educated.
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As a result of the Peloponnesian War
a. Athens eliminated its enemies and ended all attacks on Greek city-states.
b. Sparta destroyed the city of Athens and executed its leader, Pericles.
c. Athens experienced a decline in the quality of its leadership.
d. Athens brought democracy to Sparta by utilizing the resources of Syracuse.
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