| Chapter 5 Study Guide |
| Study Guide 1. What did the success of the Minoans depend on? 2. What was the palace in the Minoan civilization and what was inside the palace? 3. How did the Minoan civilization end? 4. Who were the earliest Greek-speaking people? 5. What are the Myceneans best remembered for? 6. How did the Myceneans trick the Trojans into letting them in the city? 7. Who was the poet who is credited for writing the Iliad and Odyssey? 8. What was the Iliad about? 9. What was the Odyssey about? 10. What two rivers did Greek people depend on? 11. What did the Greeks call a city built on two levels? 12. What is another word for high city? 13. What is rule by a landholding elite called? 14. After the middle class of merchants, farmers, and artisans started to get more powerful, what kind of government formed? 15. What kind of fighting had a massive formation of heavily armed soldiers? 16. What were state-owned slaves called? 17. What civilization made boys train for military around age seven to have great soldiers later on? 18. What did these people make women do? 19. What is government by the people called? 20. What were the people called who gained power by force? 21. What are lawmaking bodies are called? 22. Which civilization believed that men were superior to women? 23. What did Greeks call people who weren’t Greek? 24. Who was the man who sprinted 26.2 miles to Athens and then dropped dead? 25. What was it called when a large number of males took part in day-to-day affairs of government? 26. Who made Athens’ economy thrive and government become more democratic? 27. What was the war between Athens and Sparta called? 28. What happened to Pericles in this war? 29. What was the group that questioned accepted ideas about truth and government called? 30. What is the Socratic method? 31. What man, like Socrates influenced the importance of reasoning? 32. What did Plato think about women? 33. What were plays that tell stories of human suffering and usually end in disaster called? 34. What were humorous plays that mocked people or customs called? 35. Who was remembered for going beyond listing rulers or retelling ancient legends? 36. Who was Alexander’s father? 37. What did Alexander’s mother, Olympias, do that made Alexander so famous? 38. Who was Alexander’s idol? 39. Who was the emperor who was murdered by his own satrap and left on the road for Alexander to find? 40. Where did the Hellenistic civilization come from? 41. What civilization employed armies of architects and artists? |