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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. Athens was made into a complete democracy under the ruler Pericles and entered into a time of prosperity known as the ___ Age of Athens.
Iliad
Epicureanism
Golden
Socratic
2. 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.
Archilochus
Dark
Herodotus
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
3. 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
Hellenistic
Constitution
Thales
Drama
4. 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
Thucydides
Aegean
Socratic
Aristophanes
5. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Skepticism
Phalanxes
Athens
Iliad
6. 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.
Iliad
Spartan government included these characteristics
Euripides
Socratic
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.
Dialogues
Ideas
Heraclitus
Hellenistic
8. Greek historian ____ (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) - recounts the Peloponnesian Wars in an impartial manner in which he interviews contenders on either side.
Classical
Sparta
Thucydides
Phalanxes
9. King _____ __ (r. 359-336 B.C.E.) established the Macedonian empire and extended this empire to the Near East
Achaean
Epicureanism
Ideas
Phillip II
10. 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
Tyrant
Delian
Marathon
Sparta
11. 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
Mithraism
Stoicism
Phillip II
Democracy
12. The Lycurgan code of which Greek city-state dictated that all males ages 7 to 30 live in military barracks and undergo military training?
Iliad
Golden
Salamis
Sparta
13. The socio-economic turmoil facing Athens in the seventh century B.C.E. affected these people the worst
debt-ridden farmers
Eratosthenes
Hubris
Euripides
14. 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
debt-ridden farmers
Marathon
Ideas
15. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Phidias
Democracy
Spartan government included these characteristics
Odyssey
16. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Academy
Thirty
Peloponnesian
Aristarchus
17. 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.
Iliad
Salamis
Archaic
Heraclitus
18. ____ was the only Mycenaean Greek city state to survive when the Dorian Greeks invaded the Balkan Peninsula
Athens
Homer
Sophocles
Constitution
19. 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
Antigonid
Salamis
Classical
Thucydides
20. 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.
Archilochus
Thasos
Academy
Alexander the great
21. Pericles' strategy against the Spartan invasion of Attica - the peninsula on which Athens was located - in 431 B.C.E. happened early in the...
Ideas
Herodotus
Anatolia
Peloponnesian Wars
22. 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
Tragedy
Solon
Skepticism
23. 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.
Athens
Council of Elders
Ostracism
Alexander the great
24. 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
Elgin
Marathon
Council of Elders
Antigonid
25. ___________ (c. 276-196 B.C.E.) calculated the circumference of the earth.
Eratosthenes
Parthenon
Peloponnesian
Salamis
26. Many Mycenaens who were overrun by Dorian Greeks fled to Anatolia and established Greek culture in an area called ___.
Aristarchus
Phalanxes
Marathon
Lonia
27. 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.
Dialogues
Academy
Athens
Euclid
28. ____ __ ____ 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
Sophocles
Phoenicians
Hellenistic
Seleucid
29. 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 ______.
Skepticism
Balkan Peninsula
Anatolia
Sparta
30. 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
Cleisthenes
Aegean
Council of Elders
Hesoid
31. 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
Constitution
Hellenistic
Syracuse
Sparta
32. 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
Herodotus
Democritus
Aegean
Pythagorus
33. 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
Antigonid
Ideas
Phillip II
Constitution
34. 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.
Sparta
Skepticism
Achaean
Salamis
35. 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
Academy
Tyrant
Solon
Spartan government included these characteristics
36. 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
Tyrant
Aristarchus
Drama
Dialogues
37. 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.
Phidias
Peloponnesian
Athens
Odyssey
38. ___ 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.
Herodotus
Council of Elders
Thales
Syracuse
39. 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 ____.
Euclid
Pericles
Hellenistic
Mycenae
40. A characteristic of the religion of the ancient Greeks
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
Classical
Golden
Phillip II
41. 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.
Peloponnesian
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.
Academy
Tyrant
42. 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
Phoenicians
Thasos
Aegean
43. 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
Peloponnesian Wars
Solon
Euripides
44. The Greek poet ___ (518-438 B.C.E.) is known for his poetic odes of victory for purposes of athletic contests.
Ideas
Archaic
Pindar
Dark
45. 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
Elgin
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
Pericles
Hubris
46. 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.
Solon
Peloponnesian
Athens
Phoenicians
47. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
Sparta
Achaean
Balkan Peninsula
Aristarchus
48. 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
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
Syracuse
Mycenae
Sparta
49. Early Greek philosopher _____ (c. 400 B.C.E.) theorized that physical objects were composed of atoms (the Greek word atoma meant 'indivisible').
Marathon
Democritus
Drama
Pindar
50. 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
Pericles
Aristarchus
Homer
Parthenon