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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. In order to deal with the socio-economic crisis occurring in Athens during the seventh century B.C.E. - a certain man known as _____ was given a tyrant-like status; this leader was faced with revolutionary-type violence and responded with a severe la
Odyssey
Marathon
Draco
Achaean
2. Athens was made into a complete democracy under the ruler Pericles and entered into a time of prosperity known as the ___ Age of Athens.
Socratic
Golden
Greek art and architecture
Syracuse
3. Plato's student ___ (384-322 B.C.E.) founded a school in Athens known as the Lyceum in which he taught many subjects and a form of logic that could be applied to all studies.
Skepticism
Achaean
Aristotle
Sparta
4. Temples were typically very flamboyant and elaborate and included architectural structures such as pediments - friezes - and sides made of fluted columns with Doric - Corinthian - or Ionic capitals. Statues from Classical Greece included lifelike thr
Greek art and architecture
Elgin
Solon
Dark
5. Like Draco - ___ (594 B.C.E.) was elected as archon and given a great deal of power to deal with the agrarian crisis facing Athens.
Solon
Anatolia
Alexander the great
Ostracism
6. The ____ Kingdom - spanning from the original Macedonia - areas in Asia Minor - and Greece - was established following Alexander the Great's death by Alexander's general Antigonus.
Ostracism
Skepticism
Aristarchus
Antigonid
7. Ancient Greek philosopher ____ (c. 500 B.C.E.) was the first individual in the Western world to create a forceful philosophical system and was preoccupied with the universality of change.
Heraclitus
Sparta
Elgin
Aristotle
8. Ionian Greek ___ (c. 484-425 B.C.E.) - the 'Father of History -' wrote an account of the conflicts between the ancient Greeks and the Persians.
Pythagorus
Pindar
Herodotus
Ostracism
9. Pericles' strategy against the Spartan invasion of Attica - the peninsula on which Athens was located - in 431 B.C.E. happened early in the...
Classical
Dark
Peloponnesian Wars
Lonia
10. The most well known Greek writer of comedies was ____ (c. 450-385 B.C.E.) - a playwright who used the medium of a comedy to make fun of other Athenians
Herodotus
Balkan Peninsula
Aristophanes
Lonia
11. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
Archaic
Balkan Peninsula
Ptolemaic
Pericles
12. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Iliad
Peloponnesian
Lonia
Archaic
13. The Greek tragedies of playwright _____ (c.480-406 B.C.E.) lack the moral and religious concerns of other tragedians - but rather - restructured the traditional Athenian tragedy and focused on the inner lives and motives of his characters.
Athens
Hesoid
Euripides
Heraclitus
14. The Lycurgan code of which Greek city-state dictated that all males ages 7 to 30 live in military barracks and undergo military training?
Peloponnesian
Sparta
Ptolemaic
Mithraism
15. The ___ Method - which is perhaps Socrates' greatest contribution to Western philosophy - involves a didactic (answering a question with a question) method of examination to help an individual determine the extent of his or her knowledge and underlyi
Seleucid
Ptolemaic
Socratic
Socrates
16. The Greek poet ___ (518-438 B.C.E.) is known for his poetic odes of victory for purposes of athletic contests.
Seleucid
Spartan government included these characteristics
Pindar
Delian
17. The socio-economic turmoil facing Athens in the seventh century B.C.E. affected these people the worst
Anatolia
Hesoid
debt-ridden farmers
Peloponnesian Wars
18. Aristotle opposed ____ as a form of good government but rather - divided government into three types with the ideal rule by the majority - 'polity -' for the good of the people.
Elgin
Archilochus
Democracy
Athens
19. The ________ Wars (431-404 B.C.E.) are generally thought of as an attempt of Sparta - whose military power was land-based - to prevent rival Athens - whose military power was sea-based - from taking over all of Greece.
Peloponnesian
Antigonid
Ideas
Constitution
20. In 499 B.C.E. - the Ionian Greeks in Anatolia - who had been invaded by the Persians in 546 B.C.E. - rebelled against Persian control and were aided by the city-state ___ on the Greek mainland.
Athens
Marathon
Thales
Eratosthenes
21. __________ (c. 310-250 B.C.E.) proposed a geocentric theory stating that the sun revolves around the earth.
Archaic
Aristarchus
Classical
Ostracism
22. After unifying Greece - Macedonian King Philip II created the League of ____ as federation of Greek city-states as self-ruling entities who were required to give allegiance to Macedon and facilitate King Philip's use of military forces in foreign aff
Corinth
Lonia
Eratosthenes
Academy
23. As Phillip II and Alexander the Great extended the Macedonian empire to the Near East - the blending of eastern and western civilization led to a culture known as ____.
Hellenistic
Chaeronea
Thales
Athens
24. Greek philosopher Plato wrote _____ in order to recount - expound upon - and defend the philosophical methods of Socrates that had led to his trial and conviction
Antigonid
Dialogues
Sparta
Balkan Peninsula
25. Greek poet ___ (c. 700 B.C.E.) wrote the Theogony - a work describing the birth of the gods - and Works and Days - which tells about the life of a farmer
Hesoid
Mithraism
Ptolemaic
Classical
26. Plato's Theory of ____ indicates that there is a higher realm that exists beyond the material - sensory world of our present reality and gives the empirical world its existence
Hippocrates
Ideas
Constitution
Peloponnesian
27. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Balkan Peninsula
Odyssey
Seleucid
Archaic
28. Greek culture established in the fourth and fifth centuries B.C.E. became known as '___' as later generations used it as a standard by which they could measure their own accomplishments; Greek culture influenced Roman literature - art - and language
Classical
Epicureanism
Democritus
Pythagorus
29. After the formerly illiterate Greeks acquired literacy through trading contacts with a group known as the ____ - they were able to write down and record early poetry - which has been passed down through the generations as oral traditions.
Phoenicians
Epicureanism
Antigonid
Sparta
30. Some of the greatest actors in the earliest form Greek drama - ____ - (sixth century B.C.E.) include Aeschylus - Sophocles - and Euripides; Athenians engaged in competitions for the best performers in this type of drama.
Tragedy
Athens
Constitution
Eratosthenes
31. A policy of ____ - exiling an individual for ten years - was used by the Athenians to make sure that no one politician gained too much power.
Odyssey
Ostracism
Tragedy
Thasos
32. Sparta lead a system of alliances known as the ___ League that was composed of other city-states and served to guard Sparta from outside revolts and threats.
Aristophanes
Polis
Peloponnesian
Hubris
33. Which seventh century B.C.E. Greek poet devised the new poetic form of writing lyrics - short poems with themes that describe a certain human experience?
Phoenicians
Hippocrates
Archilochus
Athens
34. Pottery - which was influenced by the Mycenaean - mainly includes pottery on vases with scenes depicting anything from mythological events to everyday life.
Pindar
Temples were typically very flamboyant and elaborate and included architectural structures such as pediments - friezes - and sides made of fluted columns with Doric - Corinthian - or Ionic capitals.
Council of Elders
Democritus
35. ____ __ ____ assumed power of the Macedonian empire in 336 B.C.E. when his father - King Philip II - died from assassination and is remembered for his conquest of the Persian Empire in 328 B.C.E. and creation of the largest empire in the world until
Pindar
Homer
Aristotle
Alexander the great
36. Between 800 and 750 B.C.E. - a Greek cultural revival began and the ___ (city-state) emerged as the central unit of economic - social - and political structure and organization; these city-states were small - self-governing units
Archilochus
Anatolia
Ptolemaic
Polis
37. ___ - a blind poet who lived between 850 and 700 B.C.E. - has been attributed with writing the great Greek epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey
Phoenicians
Archaic
Drama
Homer
38. Many Mycenaens who were overrun by Dorian Greeks fled to Anatolia and established Greek culture in an area called ___.
Seleucid
Phidias
Lonia
Epicureanism
39. ___________ (c. 276-196 B.C.E.) calculated the circumference of the earth.
Eratosthenes
Skepticism
Peloponnesian
Aristarchus
40. ____ __ ____ assumed power of the Macedonian empire in 336 B.C.E. when his father - King Philip II - died from assassination and is remembered for his conquest of the Persian Empire in 328 B.C.E. and creation of the largest empire in the world until
Sparta
Seleucid
Odyssey
Phoenicians
41. Cyrus the Great expanded his Persian empire into Greece in 546 B.C.E. when he gained control of a region in Asia minor known as ______.
Anatolia
Hippocrates
Epicureanism
Temples were typically very flamboyant and elaborate and included architectural structures such as pediments - friezes - and sides made of fluted columns with Doric - Corinthian - or Ionic capitals.
42. A characteristic of the religion of the ancient Greeks
Classical
Elgin
Stoicism
Social events - holidays - poetry - and drama were used as times to honor the gods - each city-state held a patron god that deserved special worship above the other gods
43. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Phidias
Athens
Sparta
Tragedy
44. Although the most impressive towns in early Greek civilization is at ____ - a site known for the Lion's Gate - its sculpted entryway - its huge 'Cyclopean' walls - and its royal tombs with beehive shaped interiors - other early Greek towns included A
Democritus
Mycenae
Phalanxes
Iliad
45. After the polis (city-state) of ____ decided to leave the Delian League in 465 B.C.E. - Athens invaded this city-state and overthrew its government as an example to others who may in the future try to leave the league.
Spartan government included these characteristics
Euripides
Stoicism
Thasos
46. As the population and trade both increased and farming declined in the ____ Greek period - a large spread developed between the rich and the poor leading to threats of anarchy between classes
Aristophanes
Athens
Golden
Archaic
47. As the polis declined throughout the Hellenistic period - new religious ideas and mystery cults were brought into the region by armies returning from the Near East; the Persian cult ____ - in which religious practice centered around a cave or cavern
Skepticism
Spartan government included these characteristics
Mithraism
Tragedy
48. The plays of Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.E.) - which have moral and religious themes - focus of ___ - exaggerated pride and self-confidence - that leads to individuals bringing nemesis - divine punishment - upon themselves.
Archilochus
Greek art and architecture
Skepticism
Hubris
49. ____ of Cos (c. 460-377) - the 'Father of Medicine -' was an ancient Greek physician who rejected beliefs of supernatural forces inflicting illness and is known for his great advances in clinical medicine including the doctrines of clinical observati
Social events - holidays - poetry - and drama were used as times to honor the gods - each city-state held a patron god that deserved special worship above the other gods
Archilochus
Hippocrates
Chaeronea
50. ____ (496-406 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek tragedian who wrote several plays including Oedipus and Antigone which each address moral and religious issues; this playwright wrote from the perspective that humans were born into a world that lacks knowle
Sophocles
Mycenae
Eratosthenes
Golden
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