Chapter 5 Greece 2000 BC - 301 BC
1-3. The Greek city states were spread throughout the Aegean Sea. Name
three factors that joined the Greeks together. (Notes)
4. What people were the first to inhabit Crete?
5& 6. Name the ancient city of this civilization and the archeologist
who discovered it.
7. Who were the ancient people discovered by Heinrich Schliemann?
8. Explain what is a “Dark Age”?
9. What ancient people began
the Dark Age in Greece?
10. Who were the Dorians?
11. Define agora.
12. Name the works “written” by Homer.
13. Define polis.
14-17. Name four elements of a Greek
city-state. (four things they all shared & used to
identify a Greek city-state)
18-19. Sparta eventually developed an aristocracy and
Athens developed a democratic republic. Although different each was called
an assembly. What was name of the
assemblymen in each of the city-states?
20. Who abolished debt slavery in Athens?
21. Who wrote the first law code in Athens later to be considered very harsh?
22. What is an aristocracy?
23. What is an oligarchy?
24. Who was Pythagoras?
25. What was built in Athens for the worship of Athena? (What is the name of it?)
26. Define helot.
27. What was the duty of a hoplite?
28. Explain how the "slaves" of Sparta were different than the slaves of other civilizations.
29. Why was it necessary for the Spartans to have such a strong army?
30. Who was Hippocrates?
31. Who is the "father of history"?
32. What was the main result of the Persian wars?
33. What was the main cause of the Peloponnesian War?
34. What was the main purpose of the Delian League?
35-38. Name four characteristics of Greek art.(Must have all four to be correct)
39-41. Name the three chief schools of philosophy during the Hellenistic Age.
42. What did Philip of Macedon call his soldiers that he trained to fight on foot?
43. How far to the east did Alexander the Great conquer?
44. What is the name of the phenomena that happens when culture spreads
and intermingles with other cultures? What do we call Greek culture
when it diffused and intermingled with other cultures?
45. How did Alexander plan to connect east and west and make a new culture?(relates to his three goals)
46-48. Alexander the Great's empire was divided after his death. List the three areas of division.
49. What Greek teacher was sentenced to death for criticizing the Greek government?
50. Who was a student of Socrates and wrote the "Republic"?
51. Who was the father of Alexander the Great?
Chapter 6 Rome 1000 BC - 476 AD (Archaic Rome 1000 BC - 503 BC, Republic 503 - 27 BC, Empire 27 BC - 476 AD)
52-54. Name at least three tribes which occupied the Italian peninsula
prior to the Roman civilization.
55. What event signified the change from the Roman archaic or developmental
period to the Roman Republic period?
56. Define Republic.
57-59. What were the three branches of government during the Roman Republic?
60. Why could the Senate be considered the most powerful?
61. Define paterfamilias.
62-63. Name two reasons for the rapid growth and strength of the Roman Republic.
64-65. Name two reforms attempted by the Grachi. (Notes)
66-67. Name two reasons for the fall of the Roman Republic.
68 -70. Who were the members of the First Triumvirate?
71-73. Who were the members of the Second Triumvirate?
74. What was the main cause of the Punic Wars?
75. Who was the greatest Roman General and the "First Counsel"?
76. Who was the last Pharaoh of Egypt? (hint: she was a Ptolemy)
77. Who was the first true emperor of Rome thus changing the Republic to an Empire?
78. The Roman laws were written down on what document?
79. Define indemnity.
80. Define colonus using the word for "large Roman estate in the country."
81-83. Name the classes of Rome from order of the highest to the lowest.(not
just upper, middle, lower)"Struggle of the Orders"
84-86. What were three problems caused by the expansion of the Roman Empire?
87-88. Name one of the "Good Emperors" and list one accomplishment of this emperor.
89-90. Name two strengths of Roman Civilization
that allowed it to flourish and when absent or no longer functioning helped
cause its fall.
91. Diocletian divided the Roman Empire. What names did
he give to the new administrators?
95. Who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity?
96. Many people think that Christianity had a negative effect in the
development of Rome but actually it may have had a more positive effect.
How did Christianity help the Roman Empire?
97. There were Political, Economic, and Social reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire, explain or give an example of how one contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.
(Be sure to identify whether it was Political, Economic
or Social)
98. The Roman Empire in the east becomes Byzantine. What happens to
the Roman Empire in the west?
99. Define anarchy.
100-101. Who was the last Roman emperor
and who defeated him?
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