Ancient Greece

Test Description: World History

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) By 750 B.C. the ____________ or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life

2) What was the first greek state?

3) The gov't of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was

4) What happened at Thermopylae?

5) Herodotus wrote ______________, which is commonly regarded as the first real history in western civilization

6) According to Plato, individuals could not achieve a good life unless:

7) The conquests of Alexander the Great created the

8) The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that

9) Homers Illiad and Odyssey were

10) The gov't of Athens after Cleisthenes became:

11) Who said the unexamined life is not worth living

12) According to Greek religion, the Gods lived

13) Euclid wrote the elements, which was a

14) Formation in which Greek soldiers fought, in which they marched shoulder to shoulder

15) The western shores of Asia where many Greeks settled during the Dark ages, present day Turkey

16) Greek rulers who seized power from the aristocracy through the use of paid soldiers

17) Five elected officials in Sparta, who were responsible for the education of the youth and conduct of all citizens

18) Knossos was the central city of the Mycenaen civilization

19) Sophocles was a Greek playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex

20) The acropolis was a fortified place and also served as the religious center of the Greek Polis


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