Chapter 5 Classical Greece

Greeks temporarily lost the art of writing during the Dorian Age

• True

• False

Athens was a military state and the citizens put the state above everything else.

• True

• False

Mycenaeans were influenced by the Minoans.

• True

• False

The Trojan War was a conflict in which Mycenaeans attacked the city of Troy.

• True

• False

Classical art portrays ideal beauty and emphasizes harmony, order, and balance.

• True

• False

Athens enjoyed a golden age under the leadership of

• Pericles

• Alexander

• Homer

• Philip II

The center of the Hellenistic world was

• Athens

• Sparta

• Alexandria

• Mount Olympus

Socrates used the Socratic method of questioning to

• help others seek truth and self-knowledge

• make threatening challenges to tradition

• amuse his followers

• influence the thinking of the city's youth

Which of the following descriptions applies to both Sparta and Athens

• warrior society

• lack of trade

• few rights for women

• limited democracy

Why was the Delian League formed?

• to give all city-states equal power in Greece

• to create a trading alliance

• to guard against future attacks from Persia

• to unite the city-states into one empire