HIEU 201 Quiz 3 The Greek City-State solutions complete answers

HIEU 201 Quiz 3 The Greek City-State solutions complete answers

 

As a result of the Peloponnesian War

          a. Sparta destroyed the city of Athens and executed its leader, Pericles. 

          b. Athens eliminated its enemies and ended all attacks on Greek city-states.    

          c. Athens experienced a decline in the quality of its leadership. 

          d. Athens brought democracy to Sparta by utilizing the resources of Syracuse. 

 

Athenian women were

          a. often highly educated.        

          b. considered the equals of their husbands.     

          c. considered the wards of their husbands.      

          d. able to hold office but could not vote.        

 

The mature democracy that evolved in Athens by the fifth century B.C.

          a. granted political power to an Assembly made up of all adult male citizens.  

          b. chose all offices, even the most critical, by luck of the draw. 

          c. ensured the political equality of all people in the polis.        

          d. prevented the emergence of strong political leaders who could influence the policies of the state.

 

The earliest examples of the polis

          a. united all Greeks under the rule of a divine kingship. 

          b. were small city-states based on tribal allegiances.    

          c. evolved from rational origins to theocracy.   

          d. were confederations of city-states acting in harmony in both war and peace.         

 

Which of the following is NOT a feature of Mycenaean civilization?

          a. It owed a considerable debt to Minoan civilization on Crete. 

          b. It had a political system that can be seen as an early form of democracy.    

          c. It disintegrated due to constant warfare between its various kingdoms.       

          d. It reached its height in the period from 1400 to 1230 B.C.    

 

Artifacts and archaeological evidence of the Minoans on Crete indicate

          a. magnificent fortified palaces with extensive defensive structures that served as political centers.      

          b. a civilization that predated that of the Mycenaeans.  

          c. a warlike culture that rejected artistic and cultural pursuits.  

          d. a substantial export trade from Crete to Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece.         

 

According to Demosthenes

          a. Athens faced decline if it pursued too much cooperation with other city-states rather than pursue its own particular interests.      

          b. the Greeks faced decline if they did not unite against their common enemy, Macedonia.     

          c. the Greeks faced decline if they did not show contrition to the gods.         

          d. the Greeks faced decline because their enemies loved freedom more than they did. 

 

Solon's reforms

          a. undermined the rights of the traditional aristocracy.  

          b. excluded aristocrats from political life.         

          c. opened the highest offices to the poorest Athenians. 

          d. excluded the poor from political participation.        

 

Spartan society was militaristic primarily because

          a. Sparta relied on overwhelming military superiority to maintain dominance over the majority of its society.          

          b. Spartan conquest of Messenia was the first step in the Spartans' plan to conquer all of Greece.      

          c. the Spartans had to defend the Helots from the perioikoi.    

 

The polis

          a. was comprised mostly of full citizens, with a small number of non-citizens who could not participate in lawmaking.      

          b. could be very large, comprising vast territories and huge populations.        

          c. was comprised mostly of non-citizens, with a small number of citizens who made the laws.  

          d. resulted from the disintegration of much larger political units.

 

The Olympian religion that emerged in ancient Greece

          a. was monotheistic, worshipping Zeus as the only god.         

          b. did not put an end to the worship of local gods or the practicing of local rituals.    

          c. centered on a powerful professional priesthood that could dictate absolute truths.  

          d. played no role in the lives of the Greek people after the development of philosophy.

 

The Delian League

          a. was an alliance of city-states dominated by the largest polis, Athens. 

          b. was an instrument of Spartan economic expansion.  

          c. was created by rivals to Athens within the Peloponnesian League.    

          d. grew primarily because states voluntarily placed themselves under the protection of Athenian military power.  

 

By Dik, Solon meant

          a. the obligation of all Athenians to take part in the defense of their city.        

          b. the arrogance of the tyrants he opposed.    

          c. personal excellence in warfare.        

          d. the principle of justice that is that underlies all human community.   

 

In contrast to Sparta

          a. Athens defined freedom as the independence of the fatherland.      

          b. Athens was a land power and exclusively agricultural.         

          c. Athens valued the political freedom of the individual.          

          d. Athens possessed no navy.

 

The mature polis was a

          a. community in which laws were seen as deriving from divine rulers.  

          b. community in which religion played no role whatsoever.     

          c. self-governing community that expressed the will of free citizens.    

          d. community designed to express the will of the gods.          

 

Pericles was

          a. a military leader who was credited with saving Athens during the Persian Wars.      

          b. a tyrant who rejected Athenian democracy.   

          c. a Spartan who admired Athenian democracy. 

          d. the leading figure in Athenian political life during the middle of the fifth century B.C.         

 

The Athenian navy delivered a decisive Greek victory against the Persians in 480 B.C. at

          a. Salamis.       

          b. Plataea.       

          c. Marathon.    

          d. Thermopylae.

 

The Persians attacked Greece in the fifth century B.C. because

          a. they wanted to crush the Athenian democracy before its ideas spread to peoples in the Persian Empire.          

          b. Athens had aided a revolt by the Ionians, and the Persians wished to punish them for their interference.          

          c. they wished to add the riches of Greece to their empire.      

          d. Sparta and the Peloponnesian League were threatening to invade Asia Minor, which borders on Persia.

 

The work of Homer

          a. contains the origins of the notion that human excellence was a combination of thought and action. 

          b. depicts the gods as primarily responsible for the good or evil that befell human beings.     

          c. celebrates war without reflecting on its tragic character.      

          d. rejects military prowess and the pursuit of glory and fame as criteria for human excellence.

 

The Dark Age refers to

          a. a period of economic chaos but artistic and intellectual growth.      

          b. a period of military chaos but economic prosperity in the Greek world.       

          c. a period of migration of Greek tribes away from fertile lands to the mountains and the abandonment of Aegean islands. 

          d. a period of transition between Mycenaean and Hellenic civilizations.