Which of the following was the father of the Gods? Demeter Apollo Athena * Zeus Poseidon. The name of the Greek god of the seas and earthquakes is Dionysus Apollo Hermes Oedipus * Poseidon Penelope's husband (name) fought for years at the siege of Troy. After the fall of Troy, it took him many years of wandering adventures to return home whereupon he slew all the suitors of his virtuous wife. Poseidon * Odysseus Achilles Homer Leonidas In 490 B.C., the Athenians beat the Persians at the Battle of . This battleground was 26 miles from the city of Athens. Laconia Thermopylae Plataea Salamis * Marathon (c.a. 490-425 B.C.) a Greek from Asia Minor is often called "the father of history." He wrote a history of the Persian Wars; he also wrote of the tyranny of the Cypselids of Corinth. Homer * Herodotus Hesiod Solon Thucydides In Greek history, the term that means a city and its surrounding countryside is Ionia Attica * polis arete hubris The Greek poet was born about 612 B.C. on the island of Lesbos. Although only fragments of her writings survive, we know that she was regarded as one of the greatest lyric poets in antiquity. Dorian Penelope Hera * Sappho Helen is the modern English word that means unusually severe penalties., the term derives from the name of an Athenian lawgiver of the 7th Century B.C. * Draconian inimical drachma hedonistic Hippocratic In the great epic poem The Iliad, "the most kingly" commander of the Greek forces in the siege of Troy was Achilles Homer * Agememnon Odysseus Hector The two main historians of classical Greece were Homer and Hesiod. Pliny and Sappho. Sophocles and Aristotle. * Herodotus and Thucydides. Xerxes and Sappho. Thucydides was an Athenian who wrote the history of the Persian wars. * wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War. divorced himself from the influence of the Hippocratic school of medicine. describes the chaos of the warring Greek states in the second century B.C. was the victorious Athenian general at Marathon. Philip II died * by assassination. by suicide. of old age. while fighting in Persia. of ovarian cancer. Which best describes the philosophy of the Stoics? denunciation of convention, advocacy of a crude life in accordance with nature * a life in harmony with god and nature, knowledge of good and evil, avoidance of passion Since nothing can be known, nothing matters. both a. and c. all of the above Alexander's troops refused to proceed farther after they reached Persia. * India. Egypt. China. puberty. In 1977, the excavation of a mound at Vergina yielded extraordinarily rich finds. It is what many consider to be the tomb of . Demosthenes. * Philip II. Isocrates. Aristotle. Cleopatra. The famous soldier and philosopher Xenophon recounts how Greece was at last brought to peace and stability as a result of the decisive Theban victory at the Battle of Mantinea in 362 B.C. True * False The rising power in the Greek world about 350 B.C. was * Macedon. the Athenian Empire. Thrace. Corinth. Sparta. The "Hellenistic World" refers to Greece of the fifth century. the innovative map by Eratosthenes. * a period of three centuries when Greek culture was spread to Egypt and Asia changing both East and West. the Hellenic world after it was conquered by Rome none of the above. All of the following were successors to Alexander and ruled parts of his divided empire except the Ptolemy Dynasty Seleucid Dynasty Antigonid Dynasty * Granicus Dynasty The period from 404-371 B.C. was called the Spartan hegemony and is characterized by Spartan leadership of the Greek world. overextension of Spartan power in Asia Minor. the rise of Theban power. Spartan arrogance. * all of the above. At the time of Alexander's invasion, who was king of Persia? Xerxes * Darius III Cyrus the Great Darius I Elmer VIII Which of the following statements about the Battle of Mantinea is false? It was fought in 362 B.C. Epaminondas of Thebes was killed in the battle. Thebes faced Athens as well as an anti-Theban Peloponnesian coalition as adversaries in the battle. The battle was decisive and ended the uncertainty and political confusion that had plagued Greece. * Xenophon wrote about the battle and its consequences. After the Persian wars, Athens headed a defense alliance which she transformed into the Athenian Empire. It was called the * Delian League. Ionian League. Peloponnesian League. Corinthian League. Eastern Greek Empire The leading opponent of Philip II at Athens was Isocrates. * Demosthenes. Eubulus. Callimachus. Aristotle. Zeno of Cyprus founded cynicism. * stoicism. epicureanism. skepticism. nepotism. The author of the still-influential book ELEMENTS or The Elements of Geometry was . This timeless work was written in the early third century B.C. * Euclid. Archimedes of Syracuse. Demosthenes. Socrates. Plato. Alexander was forced to end his conquest in India because of * a mutiny by his men. a lack of funds. a fever which eventually killed him. his assassination. a lack of resistance by the natives. Which of the following is not one of the three orders of Greek architecture? Doric * Athenian Ionic Corinthian Which style of architecture has the simplest and least ornate columns? * Doric Athenian Ionic Corinthian The leader of the Athenian expedition of 415-413 B.C. against Sicily was Cleon. Lysander. 8 Alcibiades. Cimon. Pericles. was a persuasive speaker, a skillful politician, a respected military leader and an acknowledged patriot. He was the leader of Athens in 431 B.C. when the Great Peloponnesian War broke out. * Thucydides Alcibiades (469-399 B.C.) is probably the most famous teacher in history. He said that all forms of government carry within themselves the seeds of their destruction. He was put to death by the Athenian state and although he was given a chance to escape, he chose to stay and die because of his veneration of duty and the law. Epaminondas Pericles * Socrates Diogenes Aristophanes (429-347 B.C.) founded the Academy in Athens, a school that thrived for almost a thousand years. He was no fan of democracy. He envisioned a Utopia ruled over by carefully selected and educated "philosopher kings." Euclid * Plato Socrates Xenophon Thuycydides Plato said that was Socrates gone mad. This famous Cynic wore rags and lived in a tub (ca. 400-325 B.C.). Pericles Herodotus * Diogenes Demosthenes Leonidas The greatest of the Athenian comic poets, presented the play Lysistrata in 411 B.C. * Aristophanes Demosthenes Dogenes Aristotle Archimedes Professor Weber tells us that the age of reptiles (dinosaurs) ended about years ago. * 60,000,000 10,000,000 3,000,000 800,000 14,000 Professor Weber tells us that man or manlike creatures first fashioned a tool about years ago. 60 million 32 million * 2.5 million 200,000 14,000 Professor Weber describes early Stone Age man as all but which one of the following: hunters gleaners * farmers nomads Which of the following is false? Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people engaged in frequent warfare Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people often engaged in human sacrifice. Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people kept slaves. Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people lived in a precarious and fear-filled atmosphere. * Professor Weber tells us that Stone Age people generally sacrificed animals to perpetuate the forces of nature and darkness. According to Professor Weber, the main motivators in the politics of the ancient world and in today's world is/are fellow feeling and benevolence the need for order through cooperation religion and altruism * greed, revenge and the will to dominate sociability and the impulse toward group living and decision making Professor Weber tells us that the longest lasting civilization has been the Greek Sumerian * Egyptian Roman English Professor Weber shows that the "Fertile Crescent" was in Italy * Egypt and Mesopotamia Spain and France Greece and Anatolia Egypt and Libya Which of the following is false? Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in stability. * Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in progress. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in regularity. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in conservation. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were interested in repetition. Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptian god of death and resurrection and also of earth and fertilizing water is Re * Osiris Seth Anubis Isis Professor tells us that the Egyptians believed in a wicked god named who stood for all arid and unpleasant things and the desert, the foreigner, disorder and warfare. Re Osiris * Seth Anubis Isis Professor Weber shows us examples of the Egyptian , which is a tall, slender monument cut from a single piece of granite. * obelisk drachma fresco El Amarna pyramid Professor Weber tells us that the Egyptians were not talented farmers * soldiers bureaucrats artists Professor Weber tells us that a feudal system of landholding existed in China India the Fertile Crescent Medieval Europe * all of the above Professor Weber tells us that the first civilized people in Mesopotamia were the * Sumerians Babylonians Assyrians Egyptians Persians Professor Weber tells us that the wheel was probably first invented and developed in China Egypt 8 Mesopotamia India Central America Professor Weber tells us that the earliest Mesopotamian cities were organized and dominated by a commercial aristocracy the king and his family the Pharaoh an agricultural elite who monopolized the cotton trade * the priests and the temple Professor Weber informs us that glass making techniques were first developed in around 2500 B.C. China India * Mesopotamia Egypt Central America Professor Weber tells us that the earliest metal to be mined and smelted to be used for tools and weapons was bronze * copper iron steel slate Professor Weber tells us that all of the following were cities in Mesopotamia except Ur * Memphis Lagash Akkad Babylon Professor Weber tells us that the first divided the day into 12 double hours, hence our 24-hour day and also were the first to divide the year into weeks of seven days. * Mesopotamians Romans Jews Egyptians Mayans Professor Weber tells us that the first standard of value and medium of exchange in Mesopotamia was gold silver copper coins royal tokens * barley Professor Weber tells us that in the seventh century B.C., began to make silver coins. the Athenians * Lydian kings the Romans the Egyptian Pharoah the Hebrews