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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. 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
Alexander the great
Drama
Peloponnesian Wars
Hippocrates
2. ____ __ ____ 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
Anatolia
Thirty
Ideas
Seleucid
3. 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?
Mycenae
Anatolia
Greek art and architecture
Archilochus
4. 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.
Academy
Draco
Aristophanes
Thasos
5. 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
Democritus
Thucydides
Peloponnesian
6. 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.
Syracuse
Phidias
Stoicism
Greek art and architecture
7. Athens was made into a complete democracy under the ruler Pericles and entered into a time of prosperity known as the ___ Age of Athens.
Herodotus
Golden
Iliad
Academy
8. The ____ Empire was established by Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy after Alexander's death and included Egypt and Palestine.
Thasos
Iliad
Ptolemaic
Corinth
9. 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.
Corinth
Greek art and architecture
Heraclitus
Sparta
10. 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
Achaean
Archaic
Aristotle
Socrates
11. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Aegean
Peloponnesian
Odyssey
Aristarchus
12. ___ of Miletus (c. 600 B.C.E.) - who believed that water was the universal substance behind all things - was the earliest known Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher.
Alexander the great
Draco
Thales
Solon
13. 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.
Dark
Phoenicians
Aristophanes
Delian
14. ___ - 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
Spartan government included these characteristics
Hippocrates
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
15. Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. - many of the Greek city-states reasserted their independence and formed the ____ League as a confederation of city-states in the southern area of Greece.
Balkan Peninsula
Homer
Achaean
Odyssey
16. The _____ Marbles - sculptures depicting battle scenes that originally decorated the pediments (the triangular sections enclosed above the columns and below the angled roof) of the Parthenon - were removed from this temple in the 19th century and tak
Peloponnesian Wars
Elgin
Academy
Constitution
17. The socio-economic turmoil facing Athens in the seventh century B.C.E. affected these people the worst
debt-ridden farmers
Herodotus
Pythagorus
Phillip II
18. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Thirty
Mycenae
debt-ridden farmers
Democracy
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.
Mycenae
Peloponnesian
Pythagorus
Euclid
20. ________ - 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 (
Skepticism
Dialogues
Achaean
Epicureanism
21. During the transition in which the Mycenaens fled to Anatolia after being overrun by Dorian Greeks - their art of writing and related administrative skills were lost and thus - the cultural achievements of these Greeks declined leading to a historica
Greek art and architecture
Sparta
Dark
Tyrant
22. 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
Academy
Mithraism
Tyrant
Ptolemaic
23. The Greek poet ___ (518-438 B.C.E.) is known for his poetic odes of victory for purposes of athletic contests.
Thirty
Ptolemaic
Hesoid
Pindar
24. 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.
Aristarchus
Euripides
Hesoid
Pindar
25. 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
Drama
Polis
Corinth
Classical
26. 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
Phoenicians
Pythagorus
Odyssey
Greek art and architecture
27. ___ was a philosophical school of thought in Hellenistic culture that proposed that morality was relative and questioned the existence of any philosophical certainty.
Archaic
Constitution
Skepticism
Corinth
28. 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.
Phillip II
Epicureanism
Peloponnesian
Democracy
29. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Stoicism
Iliad
Aristotle
Odyssey
30. King _____ __ (r. 359-336 B.C.E.) established the Macedonian empire and extended this empire to the Near East
Council of Elders
Phillip II
Salamis
Herodotus
31. 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
Aristophanes
Corinth
Mithraism
Greek art and architecture
32. Greek historian ____ (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) - recounts the Peloponnesian Wars in an impartial manner in which he interviews contenders on either side.
Hubris
Thucydides
Peloponnesian
Odyssey
33. 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.
Corinth
Hellenistic
Aristotle
Phoenicians
34. 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
Aristarchus
Thirty
Stoicism
Epicureanism
35. ____ was the only Mycenaean Greek city state to survive when the Dorian Greeks invaded the Balkan Peninsula
Herodotus
Homer
Athens
Pericles
36. 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
Greek art and architecture
Euclid
Epicureanism
Chaeronea
37. 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.
Parthenon
Thales
Peloponnesian Wars
Sparta
38. 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.
Classical
Spartan government included these characteristics
Skepticism
Tragedy
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 _____.
Council of Elders
Hesoid
Iliad
Sparta
40. 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.
Thales
Pericles
Antigonid
Peloponnesian
41. 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.
Ostracism
Democracy
Chaeronea
Sparta
42. ____ (c. 469-399 B.C.E.) - an ancient Greek philosopher who is credited with laying the foundation for Western philosophy - emphasized the welfare of the soul and believed that knowledge was gained through divine dispensation rather than through inst
Archaic
Socrates
Academy
Delian
43. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Tyrant
Phidias
Hesoid
Seleucid
44. __________ (c. 310-250 B.C.E.) proposed a geocentric theory stating that the sun revolves around the earth.
Aristarchus
Thirty
Polis
Phoenicians
45. 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
Draco
Euripides
Democracy
46. 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.
Odyssey
Seleucid
Ptolemaic
Solon
47. Pottery - which was influenced by the Mycenaean - mainly includes pottery on vases with scenes depicting anything from mythological events to everyday life.
Alexander the great
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.
Anatolia
Achaean
48. 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
Parthenon
Homer
Phalanxes
Ideas
49. 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
Phillip II
Sparta
Aegean
Peloponnesian Wars
50. 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
Democracy
Hubris
Pythagorus
Anatolia