Chapter 4 The Ancient Greeks

Why did Xerxes want to conquer Greece?

• to increase his country's wealth

• to win glory

• for revenge

• all of these

The Age of Pericles was known as a period of ___ and ___.

• creativity, learning

• farming, trade

• conquest, rebuilding

• politics, religion

Sparta used _____ to control its citizens.

• the helots

• the military

• the government

• sports

Greek city-states were run by their

• soldiers

• citizens

• politicians

• kings

A body of land with water on three sides is called a

• peninsula

• polis

• colony

• agora

Which two rival armies worked together to defeat the Persians in 499 BC?

• Jews and Zoroasters

• Phoenicians and Mesopotamians

• Greeks and Athenians

• Syrians and Canaanites

A market and a place where people would meet and debate in ancient Greece was called

• acropolis

• satrap

• agora

• polis

In an oligarchy, _____ hold(s) power.

• everyone

• the king

• a few people

• religious teachers

In what way did a boy's life in Athens differ from a boy's life in Sparta?

• Athenian boys went to school; Spartan boys served in the military.

• Athenian boys studied combat; Spartan boys played sports

• Athenian boys lived in barracks; Spartan boys lived at home.

• Athenian boys became citizens at 30; Spartan boys became citizens at 18.

The military in Greek city-states was made up of ordinary citizens called

• satraps

• hoplites

• tyrants

• Dorians