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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. Early Greek philosopher _____ (c. 400 B.C.E.) theorized that physical objects were composed of atoms (the Greek word atoma meant 'indivisible').
Drama
Democritus
Archaic
Athens
2. 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
Elgin
Aristotle
Archaic
3. 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
Seleucid
Pythagorus
Socratic
Archilochus
4. 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
Thucydides
Aegean
Mycenae
5. 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
debt-ridden farmers
Hippocrates
Classical
6. 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
Chaeronea
Lonia
Ostracism
Hesoid
7. 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.
Athens
Pindar
Hubris
Seleucid
8. ____ (496-406 B.C.E.) was an ancient Greek tragedian who wrote several plays including Oedipus and Antigone which each address moral and religious issues; this playwright wrote from the perspective that humans were born into a world that lacks knowle
Sophocles
Heraclitus
Ostracism
Delian
9. ___ was a philosophical school of thought in Hellenistic culture that proposed that morality was relative and questioned the existence of any philosophical certainty.
Thucydides
Aegean
Skepticism
Phidias
10. 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.
Socratic
Heraclitus
Thirty
Marathon
11. 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.
Ostracism
Odyssey
Constitution
Peloponnesian
12. 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 _____.
Aegean
Sparta
Euripides
Elgin
13. Famous Greek sculptor ______ (c. 490-430 B.C.E.) was hired by Pericles to design the large statue of Athena inside the Parthenon.
Phidias
Peloponnesian Wars
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
14. 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
Parthenon
Democritus
Dialogues
Dark
15. 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
Pythagorus
Aegean
Classical
Chaeronea
16. ___ - 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
Pindar
Stoicism
Homer
Sparta
17. Many Mycenaens who were overrun by Dorian Greeks fled to Anatolia and established Greek culture in an area called ___.
Aristophanes
Aegean
Constitution
Lonia
18. 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.
Phidias
Tyrant
Stoicism
Chaeronea
19. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Iliad
Pindar
Thales
Golden
20. 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
Aegean
Eratosthenes
Achaean
21. 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
Tyrant
Phalanxes
Hubris
Polis
22. 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
Delian
Polis
Tyrant
Solon
23. 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.
Council of Elders
Euripides
Aegean
Sparta
24. ____ (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
Socrates
Eratosthenes
Skepticism
Ptolemaic
25. The Lycurgan code of which Greek city-state dictated that all males ages 7 to 30 live in military barracks and undergo military training?
Sparta
Alexander the great
Phidias
Hellenistic
26. 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
Draco
Ideas
Pindar
Democracy
27. 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.
Phalanxes
Anatolia
Council of Elders
Salamis
28. The ____ Empire was established by Alexander the Great's general Ptolemy after Alexander's death and included Egypt and Palestine.
Ptolemaic
Hippocrates
Hubris
Corinth
29. 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.
Hippocrates
Peloponnesian
Heraclitus
Drama
30. ____ was the only Mycenaean Greek city state to survive when the Dorian Greeks invaded the Balkan Peninsula
Athens
Socrates
Peloponnesian
Phalanxes
31. 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.
Dark
Achaean
Peloponnesian
Parthenon
32. 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.
Achaean
Socrates
Archilochus
Syracuse
33. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
Phillip II
Draco
Pericles
Balkan Peninsula
34. 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.
Pericles
Tragedy
Democracy
Mithraism
35. 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 ______.
Dialogues
Euripides
Chaeronea
Anatolia
36. 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
Solon
Drama
Academy
Thucydides
37. Pottery - which was influenced by the Mycenaean - mainly includes pottery on vases with scenes depicting anything from mythological events to everyday life.
Hellenistic
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.
Archilochus
Aristophanes
38. Greek historian ____ (c. 460-400 B.C.E.) - recounts the Peloponnesian Wars in an impartial manner in which he interviews contenders on either side.
Phidias
Thucydides
Peloponnesian
Aegean
39. 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
Draco
Homer
Greek art and architecture
Aristotle
40. 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.
Stoicism
Elgin
Tragedy
Parthenon
41. ___ 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.
Thasos
Thirty
Drama
Thales
42. 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.
Thasos
Skepticism
Drama
Ideas
43. 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.
Classical
Balkan Peninsula
Solon
Cleisthenes
44. The Greek poet ___ (518-438 B.C.E.) is known for his poetic odes of victory for purposes of athletic contests.
Peloponnesian Wars
Democracy
Seleucid
Pindar
45. 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
Epicureanism
Achaean
Peloponnesian Wars
Marathon
46. 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
Draco
Spartan government included these characteristics
Syracuse
Skepticism
47. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Pythagorus
Balkan Peninsula
Odyssey
Phidias
48. 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
Cleisthenes
Pericles
Chaeronea
Thales
49. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Heraclitus
Anatolia
Thirty
Stoicism
50. 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
Chaeronea
Pericles
Greek art and architecture
Anatolia
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