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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. 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?
Archilochus
Epicureanism
Aristarchus
Athens
2. 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
Thales
Socratic
Academy
Greek art and architecture
3. 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
Alexander the great
Delian
Classical
Tragedy
4. ___ 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.
Pericles
Democritus
Alexander the great
Thales
5. A characteristic of the religion of the ancient Greeks
Peloponnesian Wars
Classical
Council of Elders
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
6. 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.
Greek art and architecture
Phidias
Pindar
Aristotle
7. ____ 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
Hippocrates
Phidias
Phoenicians
Sparta
8. The Delian League led to the formation of the Athenian Empire as Athens - led by the general _____ conquered city-states who attempted to secede from the league; the Delian League treasury was moved from Delos to Athens in 454 B.C.E
Alexander the great
Pericles
Achaean
Peloponnesian
9. ___ - 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
Epicureanism
Academy
Homer
Socrates
10. 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
Drama
Greek art and architecture
Seleucid
Achaean
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
Pindar
Aegean
Greek art and architecture
Euclid
12. Many Mycenaens who were overrun by Dorian Greeks fled to Anatolia and established Greek culture in an area called ___.
Epicureanism
Socratic
Lonia
Archaic
13. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
Socrates
Iliad
Pindar
Balkan Peninsula
14. 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
Spartan government included these characteristics
Skepticism
Athens
Classical
15. 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.
Lonia
Parthenon
Syracuse
Euripides
16. ____ __ ____ 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
Phoenicians
Seleucid
Spartan government included these characteristics
Hesoid
17. 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.
Iliad
Tragedy
Corinth
Greek art and architecture
18. 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.
Pericles
Achaean
Democritus
Sparta
19. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Anatolia
Thirty
Athens
Socrates
20. 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.
Hellenistic
Stoicism
Ostracism
Draco
21. Greek historian ____ (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) - recounts the Peloponnesian Wars in an impartial manner in which he interviews contenders on either side.
Aristarchus
Thucydides
Cleisthenes
Dark
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
Dark
Corinth
Mithraism
Aegean
23. 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
Sparta
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.
Solon
Mycenae
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.
Hubris
Salamis
Balkan Peninsula
Lonia
25. ___________ (c. 276-196 B.C.E.) calculated the circumference of the earth.
Eratosthenes
Mithraism
Anatolia
Corinth
26. ________ - 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 (
Athens
Iliad
Eratosthenes
Epicureanism
27. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Odyssey
Cleisthenes
Dark
Marathon
28. 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
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
Parthenon
Sparta
29. 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.
Spartan government included these characteristics
Stoicism
Hesoid
Heraclitus
30. 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.
Phillip II
Greek art and architecture
Peloponnesian
Hesoid
31. 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
Classical
Cleisthenes
Stoicism
32. 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
Hellenistic
Archaic
Phoenicians
Parthenon
33. 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.
Skepticism
Ostracism
Polis
Peloponnesian
34. The word '____' came from a battle in 490 B.C.E. in Attica in which greatly outnumbered Athenians defeated the Persian army under emperor Darius I and afterward - a messenger ran 26 miles to report this remarkable victory
Marathon
Tragedy
Ptolemaic
Archilochus
35. 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
Cleisthenes
Mycenae
Thasos
Elgin
36. ___ was a philosophical school of thought in Hellenistic culture that proposed that morality was relative and questioned the existence of any philosophical certainty.
Phoenicians
Salamis
Skepticism
Spartan government included these characteristics
37. 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
Salamis
Stoicism
Chaeronea
Athens
38. The ____ Empire was established by Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy after Alexander's death and included Egypt and Palestine.
Aristotle
Council of Elders
Ptolemaic
Thirty
39. The Greek poet ___ (518-438 B.C.E.) is known for his poetic odes of victory for purposes of athletic contests.
Sparta
Pindar
Peloponnesian
Aristotle
40. 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.
Constitution
Peloponnesian
Thasos
Dialogues
41. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Dark
Epicureanism
Phidias
Democracy
42. 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
Euclid
Pindar
Skepticism
Greek art and architecture
43. ____ (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
Antigonid
Euclid
Socrates
Sparta
44. 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
Anatolia
Thirty
Ideas
Homer
45. 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.
Lonia
Pindar
Hubris
Heraclitus
46. 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
Thasos
Aristotle
Phalanxes
Homer
47. When other methods failed to bring social conflicts - the polis would use a ___ - an individual given complete power in order to restore the polis - to mediate.
Aristotle
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
Tyrant
Epicureanism
48. __________ (c. 310-250 B.C.E.) proposed a geocentric theory stating that the sun revolves around the earth.
Athens
Aristotle
Achaean
Aristarchus
49. 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
Homer
Corinth
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
Balkan Peninsula
50. 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
Constitution
Socratic
Skepticism