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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. 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.
Hubris
Homer
Epicureanism
Aristarchus
2. 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
Aristarchus
Ptolemaic
Skepticism
3. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Ptolemaic
Mithraism
Drama
Phidias
4. 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.
Peloponnesian Wars
Salamis
Hippocrates
Solon
5. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Syracuse
Thirty
Ptolemaic
Democracy
6. 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
Lonia
Dialogues
Epicureanism
7. 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
Cleisthenes
Stoicism
Aegean
Sophocles
8. 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
Cleisthenes
Spartan government included these characteristics
Pindar
Classical
9. 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
Polis
Hesoid
Cleisthenes
10. 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?
Eratosthenes
Greek art and architecture
Archilochus
Antigonid
11. 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
Stoicism
Balkan Peninsula
Mithraism
12. 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
Council of Elders
Pythagorus
Spartan government included these characteristics
Homer
13. 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.
Aristarchus
Peloponnesian
Antigonid
Aristotle
14. 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
Lonia
Phalanxes
Academy
Thirty
15. 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.
Council of Elders
Aristotle
Mithraism
Aegean
16. 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
debt-ridden farmers
Greek art and architecture
Alexander the great
Aristarchus
17. ___ 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.
Ptolemaic
Thales
Pericles
Thucydides
18. 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
Hellenistic
Pythagorus
Parthenon
Chaeronea
19. 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.
Lonia
Sparta
Achaean
Phidias
20. 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 _____.
Dark
Archaic
Academy
Sparta
21. The ____ Empire was established by Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy after Alexander's death and included Egypt and Palestine.
Ptolemaic
Tragedy
Corinth
Seleucid
22. King _____ __ (r. 359-336 B.C.E.) established the Macedonian empire and extended this empire to the Near East
Aristophanes
Syracuse
Phillip II
Euclid
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
Herodotus
Peloponnesian Wars
Ptolemaic
Ideas
24. ___ was a philosophical school of thought in Hellenistic culture that proposed that morality was relative and questioned the existence of any philosophical certainty.
Thales
Sparta
Skepticism
Mycenae
25. __________ (c. 310-250 B.C.E.) proposed a geocentric theory stating that the sun revolves around the earth.
Phidias
Mycenae
Peloponnesian
Aristarchus
26. 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.
Antigonid
Golden
Parthenon
Balkan Peninsula
27. 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
Thales
Classical
Achaean
Peloponnesian Wars
28. 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
Antigonid
Thales
Draco
Hubris
29. 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
Euclid
Hesoid
Pindar
Alexander the great
30. ____ was the only Mycenaean Greek city state to survive when the Dorian Greeks invaded the Balkan Peninsula
Pindar
Athens
Ostracism
Aegean
31. 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
Aristarchus
Peloponnesian
Golden
32. ________ - 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 (
Epicureanism
Peloponnesian Wars
Parthenon
Thucydides
33. ___ - 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
Thucydides
Homer
Pericles
Euripides
34. A characteristic of the religion of the ancient Greeks
Peloponnesian Wars
Classical
Mithraism
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
35. 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.
Herodotus
Athens
Archaic
Spartan government included these characteristics
36. Early Greek philosopher _____ (c. 400 B.C.E.) theorized that physical objects were composed of atoms (the Greek word atoma meant 'indivisible').
Democritus
Eratosthenes
Spartan government included these characteristics
Socratic
37. 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
Ideas
Mycenae
Dark
Socratic
38. Many Mycenaens who were overrun by Dorian Greeks fled to Anatolia and established Greek culture in an area called ___.
Mithraism
Constitution
Lonia
Thasos
39. ____ (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
Peloponnesian
Socrates
Phoenicians
Achaean
40. 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
Classical
Socratic
Stoicism
41. 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
Thirty
Drama
Classical
Aegean
42. 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
Polis
Archilochus
Athens
Seleucid
43. 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
Lonia
Hellenistic
Elgin
Cleisthenes
44. Greek historian ____ (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) - recounts the Peloponnesian Wars in an impartial manner in which he interviews contenders on either side.
Ostracism
Thucydides
debt-ridden farmers
Elgin
45. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
debt-ridden farmers
Balkan Peninsula
Archaic
Aristotle
46. The Lycurgan code of which Greek city-state dictated that all males ages 7 to 30 live in military barracks and undergo military training?
Aegean
Sparta
Peloponnesian
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
47. ____ __ ____ 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
Alexander the great
Thales
Aristotle
Academy
48. 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
Hellenistic
Aristotle
Aristophanes
Hesoid
49. Athens was made into a complete democracy under the ruler Pericles and entered into a time of prosperity known as the ___ Age of Athens.
Ideas
Delian
Golden
Aegean
50. The socio-economic turmoil facing Athens in the seventh century B.C.E. affected these people the worst
Thales
Thasos
Peloponnesian Wars
debt-ridden farmers