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CLEP Western Civilization Ancient Greece
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1. ___ - 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
Ostracism
Homer
Archilochus
Draco
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.
Hubris
Herodotus
Ostracism
Hippocrates
3. 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
Syracuse
Pericles
Stoicism
Spartan government included these characteristics
4. 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
Parthenon
Corinth
Dialogues
Pythagorus
5. 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?
Hellenistic
Classical
Pindar
Archilochus
6. 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
Aristotle
Lonia
Heraclitus
7. The socio-economic turmoil facing Athens in the seventh century B.C.E. affected these people the worst
debt-ridden farmers
Aegean
Marathon
Dialogues
8. 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
Heraclitus
Dark
Aristophanes
Iliad
9. 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.
Thirty
Drama
Tragedy
Council of Elders
10. 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 ____.
Hellenistic
Tyrant
Dark
Cleisthenes
11. 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
Delian
Greek art and architecture
Ideas
Peloponnesian
12. 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
Athens
Pythagorus
Drama
Corinth
13. 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
Democritus
Epicureanism
Golden
14. Pottery - which was influenced by the Mycenaean - mainly includes pottery on vases with scenes depicting anything from mythological events to everyday life.
Democritus
Phoenicians
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.
Hellenistic
15. 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.
Democritus
Ostracism
Constitution
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
16. 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.
Classical
Tyrant
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
Greek art and architecture
17. Following defeat by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian Wars - a Spartan oligarchy known as the '___ Tyrants' took control of Athens for several years
Stoicism
Dark
Socrates
Thirty
18. 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
Odyssey
Athens
Classical
19. 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.
Seleucid
Hubris
Peloponnesian
Polis
20. __________ (c. 310-250 B.C.E.) proposed a geocentric theory stating that the sun revolves around the earth.
Aristarchus
Golden
Aegean
Polis
21. ____ 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
Greek art and architecture
Peloponnesian
Hippocrates
Thales
22. After fighting with and enslaving neighboring Messenia - a Greek city-state known as Sparta came to control the...
Mycenae
Balkan Peninsula
Salamis
Pericles
23. 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.
Polis
Peloponnesian
Archaic
Socrates
24. Pericles' strategy against the Spartan invasion of Attica - the peninsula on which Athens was located - in 431 B.C.E. happened early in the...
Phoenicians
Classical
Mycenae
Peloponnesian Wars
25. 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.
Heraclitus
Marathon
Classical
Phidias
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.
Classical
Epicureanism
Odyssey
Antigonid
27. 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.
Democracy
Draco
Antigonid
Mycenae
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
Draco
Corinth
Phillip II
Academy
29. 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.
Spartan government included these characteristics
Phoenicians
Thasos
Dark
30. Homer's epic poem the ___ describes the siege of Troy by the Mycenaeans.
Odyssey
Thucydides
Phillip II
Iliad
31. 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 _____.
Chaeronea
Sparta
Skepticism
Euclid
32. King _____ __ (r. 359-336 B.C.E.) established the Macedonian empire and extended this empire to the Near East
Phillip II
Solon
Socratic
Tyrant
33. ____ (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
Thirty
Socrates
Archaic
Dark
34. ____________ - (c. 300 B.C.E) - the 'father of geometry' developed many geometrical theorems in his book called the Elements.
Ptolemaic
Academy
Athens
Euclid
35. 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.
Odyssey
Parthenon
Thirty
Peloponnesian
36. ___________ (c. 276-196 B.C.E.) calculated the circumference of the earth.
Drama
Polis
Eratosthenes
Iliad
37. A characteristic of the religion of the ancient Greeks
Aristophanes
Achaean
Balkan Peninsula
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
38. 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
Tragedy
Homer
Phillip II
39. Many Mycenaens who were overrun by Dorian Greeks fled to Anatolia and established Greek culture in an area called ___.
Lonia
Aristotle
Stoicism
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.
40. 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
Pericles
Sparta
Stoicism
Drama
41. 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
Sophocles
Constitution
Parthenon
Eratosthenes
42. 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
Archaic
Thales
Euclid
Mycenae
43. 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.
Odyssey
Phalanxes
Academy
Achaean
44. ___ was a philosophical school of thought in Hellenistic culture that proposed that morality was relative and questioned the existence of any philosophical certainty.
Skepticism
Chaeronea
Hellenistic
Phillip II
45. 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
Iliad
Phoenicians
Dark
Mithraism
46. 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
Polis
Heraclitus
Hellenistic
47. 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.
Spartan government included these characteristics
Aristotle
Socrates
Athens
48. 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
Lonia
Aristophanes
Archaic
Ptolemaic
49. 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.
Ideas
Sparta
Heraclitus
Achaean
50. 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
Phalanxes
Cleisthenes
Hubris
Corinth