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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. 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
Ptolemaic
Balkan Peninsula
Thasos
Marathon
2. 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
Parthenon
Aegean
Lonia
Greek art and architecture
3. 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
Tragedy
Ideas
Chaeronea
4. ____________ - (c. 300 B.C.E) - the 'father of geometry' developed many geometrical theorems in his book called the Elements.
Thasos
Eratosthenes
Euclid
Constitution
5. 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
Seleucid
Drama
Odyssey
Solon
6. 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
Pythagorus
Aegean
Elgin
7. 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.
Aristotle
Socratic
Academy
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.
8. 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
Socrates
Elgin
Dark
9. A characteristic of the religion of the ancient Greeks
Eratosthenes
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
Peloponnesian
Phidias
10. 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
Salamis
Aristophanes
Seleucid
11. 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
Democracy
Socratic
Phalanxes
Balkan Peninsula
12. ___ - 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
Athens
Homer
Phoenicians
Lonia
13. 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
Thucydides
Cleisthenes
Socratic
Aristotle
14. 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.
Thasos
Aegean
Euripides
Cleisthenes
15. 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
Spartan government included these characteristics
Socratic
Athens
16. 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
Epicureanism
Draco
Thirty
17. 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
Sparta
Archaic
Hellenistic
Corinth
18. Many Mycenaens who were overrun by Dorian Greeks fled to Anatolia and established Greek culture in an area called ___.
Democritus
Hippocrates
Lonia
Balkan Peninsula
19. 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
Herodotus
Drama
Aristotle
Polis
20. The socio-economic turmoil facing Athens in the seventh century B.C.E. affected these people the worst
Greek art and architecture
Peloponnesian
Archaic
debt-ridden farmers
21. 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
Aristotle
Aristophanes
Peloponnesian Wars
Mycenae
22. ____ (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
Corinth
Socrates
Epicureanism
Cleisthenes
23. 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.
Euclid
Phillip II
Democracy
Athens
24. 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
Delian
Council of Elders
Balkan Peninsula
Stoicism
25. ___ was a philosophical school of thought in Hellenistic culture that proposed that morality was relative and questioned the existence of any philosophical certainty.
Phalanxes
Skepticism
Antigonid
Ostracism
26. 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
Dark
Dialogues
Pericles
Sophocles
27. 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.
Dialogues
Herodotus
Pindar
Constitution
28. While the Athenian Draco is known for his strict 'Draconian' law codes - Solon is known for the _____ which he brought to Athens; Solon structured Athenian government into a Council of 400 members (boule) - a general Assembly (ekklesia) - and public
Anatolia
Constitution
Marathon
Spartan government included these characteristics
29. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
Pindar
Elgin
Thales
Balkan Peninsula
30. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Elgin
Heraclitus
Iliad
Herodotus
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.
Elgin
Marathon
Pindar
Golden
32. An elected board that was active in foreign policy and monitored the kings' and generals' exercise of military authority - Assembly of all male citizens over age 30 - two kings with limited authority - Voting using precise counts
Solon
Thales
Constitution
Spartan government included these characteristics
33. ____ 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
Anatolia
Dialogues
Mycenae
34. 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
Cleisthenes
Odyssey
Mithraism
Anatolia
35. 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
Anatolia
Dark
Greek art and architecture
Hippocrates
36. King _____ __ (r. 359-336 B.C.E.) established the Macedonian empire and extended this empire to the Near East
Phidias
Hippocrates
Phillip II
Socrates
37. 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.
Achaean
Academy
Salamis
Archilochus
38. 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.
Ideas
Lonia
Classical
Ostracism
39. 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.
Pythagorus
Alexander the great
Syracuse
Athens
40. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Socrates
Phidias
Corinth
Antigonid
41. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Constitution
Syracuse
Odyssey
Academy
42. 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
Herodotus
Skepticism
Pericles
43. 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
Classical
Solon
Pythagorus
Pericles
44. 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
Heraclitus
Tyrant
Elgin
Socrates
45. 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
Athens
Aristophanes
Heraclitus
46. Early Greek philosopher _____ (c. 400 B.C.E.) theorized that physical objects were composed of atoms (the Greek word atoma meant 'indivisible').
Peloponnesian
Democritus
debt-ridden farmers
Balkan Peninsula
47. 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.
Antigonid
Salamis
Classical
Democracy
48. ____ was the only Mycenaean Greek city state to survive when the Dorian Greeks invaded the Balkan Peninsula
Tyrant
Marathon
debt-ridden farmers
Athens
49. ____ __ ____ 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
Athens
Dark
Seleucid
Achaean
50. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Achaean
Thirty
Golden
Stoicism