World History- The Final Exam

In ancient Greece, a powerful individual who gained control of a city-state's government by appealing to the poor for support, was known as:

• Helot

• Dorian

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

He was born to a wealthy Athenian family, he had careers as a wrestler and a poet before he became a philosopher. He was a student of Socrates. When Socrates died he wrote down their conversations, which became known as "The Republic." Who was he?

• Socrates

• Alexander the Great

• Plato

• Aristotle

A Greek city-state—the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C. is referred to as:

• A polis

• An epic

• A helot

• None of the above

A government in which power is in the hands of a single person, is called:

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

• Aristocracy

• Monarchy

The term to describe a fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city.

• Polis

• Epic

• Macedonia

• Acropolis

Who wrote the Iliad?

• Socrates

• Pericles

• Aristotle

• Homer

Who trained Alexander when he was 13-year-old?

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Socrates

• Philip II

What did the Athenians value?

• Knowledge & military strength

• Military strength

• Knowledge, the arts, & literature

• Knowledge & sports

The Greeks won the Persian War.

• True

• False

Known as a slave in Sparta:

• Peasant.

• Helot.

• Serf.

• Servant.