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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Sophocles | f. | Mount Olympus | b. | Macedonia | g. | Alexander | c. | Sophists | h. | Pythagoras | d. | myth | i. | Stoics | e. | Hellenistic
Era | j. | Thucydides |
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a commander in the army at 16 and a king at 20
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a traditional story about gods and heroes
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considered by some to be the greatest historian of the ancient world
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taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers
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Greece’s northern neighbor
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taught that happiness came from reason and doing one’s duty
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taught that there was no absolute right and wrong
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dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story
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highest mountain in Greece
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a time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Herodotus | f. | Demosthenes | b. | Lighthouse at Alexandria | g. | Socrates | c. | Zeus | h. | Epicurus | d. | Alexander the Great | i. | Aristophanes | e. | Euripides | j. | Euclid |
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taught that absolute right and wrong did exist
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one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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chief god of the Greeks
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taught that happiness, the goal of life, came from spending time with
friends
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wrote plays that poked fun at politicians and encouraged the audience to
think
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tried to warn the Athenians that Philip II was a threat to them
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built one of the greatest cities of the ancient world and named it after
himself
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“the father of history”
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studied how points, lines, angles, and planes relate to one another
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dramatist who questioned traditional thinking about war
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Who said, “Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the
earth”?
a. | Philip II | c. | Euripides | b. | Homer | d. | Archimedes |
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Who thought that governments should be headed by philosopher-kings?
a. | Alexander the Great | c. | Aristophanes | b. | Plato | d. | Jason |
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Who freed the Greek cities in Asia Minor from Persian rule?
a. | Philip II | c. | Alexander the Great | b. | Demosthenes | d. | Euclid |
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The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and goddesses by
performing
a. | acrobatics. | c. | tragedies. | b. | rituals. | d. | dances. |
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Philip II got some Greek cities to join him by ____ them.
a. | conquering | c. | bribing | b. | inviting | d. | all of these |
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Who told King Ptolemy that “There is no royal way to learn
geometry”?
a. | Euclid | c. | Aristotle | b. | Pythagoras | d. | Poseidon |
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This Macedonian king loved Greek culture and planned to conquer Persia.
a. | Alexander the Great | c. | Philip II | b. | Aeschylus | d. | Homer |
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Homer’s epic, the Iliad, is about
a. | the Trojan War. | c. | Gilgamesh. | b. | Alexander the Great. | d. | the oracle at
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Who was the goddess of wisdom and crafts?
a. | Aphrodite | c. | Athena | b. | Artemis | d. | Apollo |
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Herodotus wrote
a. | the Odyssey. | c. | the Book of the Dead. | b. | the History of
the Persian Wars. | d. | Antigone. |
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Who wrote the Odyssey?
a. | Sophocles | c. | Euripides | b. | Homer | d. | Aesop |
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Aristotle taught his students to follow the
a. | Golden Rule. | c. | golden mean. | b. | Golden Fleece. | d. | none of these |
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Modern examples of drama include
a. | CDs. | c. | movies and plays. | b. | concerts. | d. | all of these |
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Philip II defeated the Greeks at the Battle of
a. | Troy. | c. | Chaeronea. | b. | Alexandria. | d. | Greece. |
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The Hellenistic Era produced a great body of
a. | scientific achievement. | c. | literature and
philosophy. | b. | art and architecture. | d. | all of the above |
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Who was sentenced to death for his teachings?
a. | Archimedes | c. | Ares | b. | Socrates | d. | Plato |
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The library here attracted scholars from all over the world.
a. | Babylon | c. | Alexandria | b. | Rome | d. | Thebes |
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Aristarchus was an astronomer who taught that the sun was
a. | the chariot of Apollo. | c. | revolving around the earth. | b. | the center of the
universe. | d. | collapsing. |
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Whose armies conquered the land as far east as modern Pakistan?
a. | Cyrus the Great | c. | Philip II | b. | Ramses II | d. | Alexander the
Great |
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They believed that the human mind could understand everything.
a. | Epicureans | c. | Stoics | b. | Sophists | d. | philosophers |
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Essay
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What are some of the areas of our lives that ancient Greek culture still has
influence over today?
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Why did Socrates disagree with the Sophists?
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What values did the Greeks want their art and architecture to reflect?
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Why did Alexander the Great’s empire fall apart after his death?
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