Ancient Greece - Chapter 11 Question Preview (ID: 36022)
Review The Geography Of Ancient Greece Along With Their Religion And Literature, The Beginnings Of Democracy And The City-states Of Athens And Sparta.
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In Greece, a ____________________ was someone who took power in an illegal way.
a) tyrant
b) aristocracy
c) oligarchy
d) helot
The Spartans forced the people that they defeated to become slaves called ____________________.
a) helots
b) tyrnats
c) polis
d) citizen
A blind man named Homer composed the most famous ____________________ in Ancient Greece.
a) fables
b) myths
c) epic poems
d) polis
A storyteller named Aesop is credited with writing many Greek ____________________that used animals to teach moral lessons.
a) fables
b) myths
c) epic poems
d) isthmus
An ____________________ connects the Peloponnesus to the rest of Greece.
a) isthmus
b) peninsula
c) archipelago
d) polis
In Greece, the ____________________ were people who were descended from noble ancestors.
a) aristocracy
b) oligarchy
c) citizens
d) tyrants
The mainland of Greece is a ____________________ that sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea.
a) peninsula
b) isthmus
c) island
d) archipelago
In Greek, the word for city-state was ____________________.
a) polis
b) helot
c) tyrant
d) barracks
The ____________________ were held every four years as a part of a festival to honor Zeus.
a) Olympics
b) Mount Olympus
c) democracy
d) elections
In an ____________________, people rule because of wealth or land ownership and not inherited social class.
a) oligarchy
b) aristocracy
c) monarchy
d) democracy
The Greek alphabet developed out of one that they picked up from the ____________________ between 900 BC and 800 BC.
a) Phoenicians
b) Myceneans
c) Romans
d) Macedonians
____________________ is a government in which the citizens make political decisions.
a) democracy
b) aristocracy
c) oligarchy
d) monarchy
The Greeks created ____________________ to explain the creation of the world and of human beings.
a) myths
b) epic poems
c) fables
d) Olympics
To the Greeks, a ____________________ was a person with the right to take part in ruling the city-state.
a) citizen
b) tyrant
c) monarch
d) noble
The Greeks believed that the 12 major gods and goddesses lived on ____________________.
a) Mount Olympus
b) Peloponnesus
c) Phoenicians
d) isthmus
At age seven, Spartan boys moved into military houses called ____________________.
a) barracks
b) isthmus
c) Mount Olympus
d) Phoenicians
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