Chapters 27 and 28 Review

What best describes education in Sparta?

• Children studied sculpture and painting.
• Both boys and girls got military training.
• Both boys and girls learned to cook and clean.
• Children did not learn to read.

Which of the following is evidence that Spartan women had more rights than Athenian women?

• Spartan women could own their own property.
• Spartan women had the most influence in the home.
• Spartan women could speak at the Assembly.
• Spartan women served in the army until they were 60.

What was the main purpose of Athenian education for boys?

• to prepare them to run family businesses
• to prepare them for good marriages
• to prepare them for military service
• to prepare them to be good citizens

Who had the most power in Sparta?    

• the kings
• the Council of Elders
• the priestesses
• the Assembly

Sparta got the land it needed by conquering its neighbors. What happened after Sparta conquered a neighboring land?

• Spartans demanded that the conquered people leave the land and let Spartans move in.
• Spartans demanded that the conquered people give Sparta much of their food crops.
• The conquered people moved to Sparta and sold their goods in the marketplace.
• The conquered people traveled by sea to other countries to trade for barley and wheat.

Sparta used heavy iron bars as money. What conclusion might you draw from this?

• Sparta discouraged trade with other city-states.
• Spartan money was more valuable than Athenian money.
• Sparta encouraged trade with lands reached by boat.
• Spartan money was easier to use than Athenian money.

Why did Leonidas decide to fight the Persians at Thermopylae?

• The Persian army would have to go through a narrow pass.
• The Spartans were very familiar with the area.
• The Persians would be tired from their long march.
• The Spartans were counting on their Greek allies nearby.

Why did the Persians think it would be easy to conquer Greece?

• Because they knew the Greeks were peace-loving.
• Because they were better educated than the Greeks.
• Because they had more land and people than the Greeks.
• Because they had more people in their assembly than the Greeks.

What was an important result of the Persian wars?

• They caused Greeks to invent new gods.
• They led to the decline of Sparta.
• They enabled Persia to conquer Europe.
• They preserved Greek independence.

What was most surprising about the outcome of the Persian wars?

• The Persian Empire fell apart after the wars.
• The Persian Empire attacked Greece again 30 years later.
• The Greeks won while fighting in a foreign land.
• The Greeks won with less land and fewer people.