The Greeks Became Literate Again During the Ninth Century

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History Chapter 3&4

Question	Answer
Those Greeks who were able to accumulate wealth during the Dark Age eventually emerged as the Greek ___________.	aristocracy
Homer's poetry describes a world in which warrior aristocrats reinforce social ties through what?	hospitality and gift giving
Hubris is _______________.	excessive pride, which was punished by the gods
The Greeks became literate again during the 9th century B.C.E. by ______________.	Phoenician alphabet
By the sixth century B.C.E., Greeks founded numerous colonies around the Mediterranean basin. The most historically significant colonies were	Anatolia (present-day Turkey) and Italy
Since every polis needed Hoplites the men who took part began to demand __________.	a role in politics
In the symposium, Archaic Age Greek aristocrats enjoyed what?	wine and listened to poetry
A Greek aristocrat who seized power and ruled outside the traditional constitutional framework was called a ________.	tyrant
Democracy originated in Greece from the idea of the demos, what does it literally mean?	neighborhood
Cleisthenes is important in the history of Athenian government because he	championed the cause of the demos and took steps to limit the power of the aristocracy.
______________ is important in the history of Athenian government because he championed the cause of the demos and took steps to limit the power of the aristocracy.	Cleisthenes
The first historian of the Western world was __________.	Herodotus
The Persian Wars were begun by a revolt instigated by certain Greeks, what colony?	Ionia Greeks, against Persians
During the second Persian War, Themistocles persuaded his fellow Athenians to do something drastic what was it?	abandon Athens and let Persia burn it
According to the historian Thucydides, the Peloponnesian War began because of the growing power of who? And also the fear and envy it inspired in what city-state?	Athens; Sparta
Sparta imposed what form of government on the defeated Athenians and their allies?	ogliarchy
Socrates' most important pupil was __________.	Plato
Alexander the Great is said to have taken two books with him on his conquest of Persia, what were they?	Iliad and Xenophon's Anabasis
The Theban Sacred Band was what?	elite military unit composed entirely of male couples
Whereas Plato conceived of politics as _______________, Aristotle regarded politics ________________.	a means toward living the good life; an end in itself
The 4th century B.C.E. in Greece witnessed a confused political terrain, with many attempting to discover a direction for the Greeks; among these was _________, who believed that the _______________________________.	Isocrates; Greeks could rediscover their lost unity by an invasion of Persia
Philip II of Macedon's early success had much to do with his reorganization of what?	Macedonian army
The ultimate aim of the League of Corinth was to ___________.	invade Persia
The political and military alliance by which the Macedonians united Greece under their own rule was known as the _____________.	League of Corinth
Alexander was aided in his conquest of Egypt by being proclaimed as the ___________ by the _________________.	"Son of Ammon"; son god's oracle
All of the male rulers of Macedonian Egypt took what name?	Ptolemy
To highlight their authority and status in the former Persian Empire, Seleucid rulers used terms in ________	proclamations reminiscent of earlier Mesopotamian rulers.
With the expansion of population in the Hellenistic urban centers, Middle and Near Eastern cities reached population levels _________.	that Europe would not reach until the eighteenth century.
The Stoics believed that the cosmos is an ______	ordered whole in which all contradictions are resolved for the ultimate good.
Aristarchus of Samos was unusual among Hellenistic astronomers because he believed that the earth ___________ around the sun.	circled
Scientific development during the Hellenistic period was of such a degree that the era may be compared favorable to ____________________________	the seventeenth-century scientific revolution.
With the expansion of population in the ___________________, Middle and Near Eastern cities reached population levels that Europe would not reach until the eighteenth century.	Hellenistic urban centers
The Stoics believed that the _________ is an ordered whole in which all contradictions are resolved for the ultimate good.	cosmos
To highlight their authority and status in the former Persian Empire, _______ rulers used terms in proclamations reminiscent of earlier Mesopotamian rulers.	Seleucid

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