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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. ____ __ ____ 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
Aristarchus
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
Seleucid
Socratic
2. Following the Peloponnesian Wars - bickering continued between the Greek city-states in an effort for supremacy and Sparta could not remain strong enough to control all of Greece. Philip II of Macedon won the Battle of _____ after invading Greece in
Euclid
Ptolemaic
Stoicism
Chaeronea
3. The Hellenistic system of philosophy known as ____ was founded by Zeno of Citium (c. 335-263 B.C.E.) in Athens and teaches that inner peace and clear-thinking could be obtained through self-control and suppression of passions - emotions - and desires
Dialogues
Stoicism
Sophocles
Classical
4. 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 ____.
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
Hubris
Mycenae
Hellenistic
5. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Eratosthenes
Tragedy
Odyssey
Epicureanism
6. In order to continue the work of Socrates - Plato also founded a school in Athens called the ____ - a school which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
Pindar
Academy
Solon
Homer
7. 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
Socratic
Heraclitus
Phillip II
Pindar
8. King _____ __ (r. 359-336 B.C.E.) established the Macedonian empire and extended this empire to the Near East
Phillip II
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.
Aegean
Marathon
9. ____ (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
Mithraism
Solon
Archaic
Sophocles
10. ____ was the only Mycenaean Greek city state to survive when the Dorian Greeks invaded the Balkan Peninsula
Pindar
Athens
Chaeronea
Spartan government included these characteristics
11. The ___ Sea became an important geographical core of Greek civilization in that it stood between the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia; sea travel was much more efficient than land travel due to the terrain of the land surrounding this early Greek civili
Athens
Achaean
Marathon
Aegean
12. The Athenians were defeated in 413 B.C.E. after Alcibiades - Pericles' nephew - led them in a failed invasion of Spartan allies at the city of ____ in Sicily.
Chaeronea
Spartan government included these characteristics
Syracuse
Euripides
13. ___ - 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
Lonia
Drama
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
Homer
14. ____________ - (c. 300 B.C.E) - the 'father of geometry' developed many geometrical theorems in his book called the Elements.
Syracuse
Stoicism
Euclid
Parthenon
15. 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.
Dialogues
Athens
Hubris
Thasos
16. __________ (c. 310-250 B.C.E.) proposed a geocentric theory stating that the sun revolves around the earth.
Aristophanes
Aristarchus
Phoenicians
Greek art and architecture
17. Greek philosopher ________ (c. 530 B.C.E.) theorized that mathematical relationships could be use to describe all of reality; this philosopher is also believed to have coined the term 'philosopher -' stating that he was a 'lover of wisdom' and the mo
Pythagorus
Phalanxes
Spartan government included these characteristics
Hesoid
18. Athens was made into a complete democracy under the ruler Pericles and entered into a time of prosperity known as the ___ Age of Athens.
Golden
Spartan government included these characteristics
Greek art and architecture
Sparta
19. The socio-economic turmoil facing Athens in the seventh century B.C.E. affected these people the worst
debt-ridden farmers
Antigonid
Syracuse
Aristarchus
20. 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.
Archaic
Draco
Solon
Hesoid
21. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Democritus
Thucydides
Anatolia
Phidias
22. 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.
Homer
Herodotus
Syracuse
Socrates
23. 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
Pericles
Aristotle
Hippocrates
Ideas
24. The Greeks prevented further westward expansion of the Persian empire when they defeated the army of King Xerxes at the battle of ___ in 480 B.C.E.
Polis
Aristotle
Corinth
Salamis
25. 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
Pericles
Hubris
26. ___________ (c. 276-196 B.C.E.) calculated the circumference of the earth.
Peloponnesian
Eratosthenes
Stoicism
Achaean
27. 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
Aristophanes
Aristarchus
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
28. 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.
Tyrant
Antigonid
Hubris
Peloponnesian Wars
29. Greek ____ was generally used to honor the gods - originally involved a chorus (group of singers) alternating verse with a single leader - and grew to include dialogue between actors
Heraclitus
Hubris
Drama
Sparta
30. Pericles' strategy against the Spartan invasion of Attica - the peninsula on which Athens was located - in 431 B.C.E. happened early in the...
Academy
Democritus
Socratic
Peloponnesian Wars
31. 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.
Hubris
Peloponnesian
Sparta
Archaic
32. The Lycurgan code of which Greek city-state dictated that all males ages 7 to 30 live in military barracks and undergo military training?
Dark
Pindar
Phillip II
Sparta
33. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Thirty
Classical
Academy
Phillip II
34. In order to protect themselves and neighboring city-states from future attacks from the Persians - the Athenians formed the ___ League (478 B.C.E.) - a naval alliance made up of over a hundred poleis (city-states) all located along the Aegean Sea sho
Epicureanism
Delian
Euripides
Euclid
35. ___ was a philosophical school of thought in Hellenistic culture that proposed that morality was relative and questioned the existence of any philosophical certainty.
Sophocles
Mycenae
Skepticism
Seleucid
36. 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
Delian
Seleucid
Aristophanes
37. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Seleucid
Council of Elders
Elgin
Iliad
38. As Greek military techniques changed from small - wealthy cavalry units to large infantry groups - soldiers who would buy spears and armor became known as hoplites who were organized into large units able known as ____ that were able to resist cavalr
Euripides
Marathon
Alexander the great
Phalanxes
39. Through a series of battles at land and at sea - the Athenians were able to defeat the Persians with the assistance of the city-state of _____.
Thucydides
Archaic
Stoicism
Sparta
40. 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.
Euripides
Constitution
Archaic
Tragedy
41. In 546 B.C.E. the Nobleman ____ emerged into power in Athens during a time of revolutionary unrest and worked to reform the structure of society and replacing the aristocratic brotherhoods (phratries) who ruled the Council with the demes (townships o
Lonia
Eratosthenes
Pythagorus
Cleisthenes
42. Greek historian ____ (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) - recounts the Peloponnesian Wars in an impartial manner in which he interviews contenders on either side.
Council of Elders
Democritus
Solon
Thucydides
43. 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.
Hubris
Aristotle
Athens
Hellenistic
44. The Greek poet ___ (518-438 B.C.E.) is known for his poetic odes of victory for purposes of athletic contests.
Sparta
Pindar
Phalanxes
Elgin
45. ____ __ ____ 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
Aristotle
Mithraism
Dark
Alexander the great
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
Epicureanism
Archaic
Classical
Archilochus
47. ________ - a philosophical school of thought prominent in the Hellenistic period - taught that the greatest good came from seeking modest pleasures in order to reach a state of tranquility and freedom from fear (ataraxia) and absence of bodily pain (
Mycenae
Euripides
Epicureanism
Socrates
48. In the fifth century B.C.E. - Greek ruler Pericles ordered the construction of the ___ - a temple to the goddess Athena - on the hill known as the Acropolis.
Euripides
Pindar
Peloponnesian
Parthenon
49. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
Balkan Peninsula
Aegean
Salamis
Draco
50. 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
Mycenae
Ostracism
Seleucid