Ancient Greece

Alexander the Great conquered territory as far east as the

• Nile River

• Tigris River

• Euphrates River

• Indus River

Two Aegean civilizations that came before the Greeks were

• the Macedonians and the the Thebans

• the Athenians and the Spartans

• the Minoans and the Mycenaeans

• the Minoans and the Macedonians

The Delian League eventually became

• the Spartan Empire

• the Athenian Empire

• the Persian Empire

• Alexander the Great's Empire

A major factor in Greece's victories during the Persian Wars was

• the hostile relationship between Ionia and Sparta

• its vastly greater numbers of warships

• the cooperation of the independent city-states

• the hostile relationship between Athens and Sparta

The war between Athens and Sparta for dominance in Greece was called the

• Pyrrhic War

• Persian War

• Peloponnesian War

• Punic War

The mixture of Greek and Middle Eastern culture that formed during and after the rule of Alexander is called

• Septuagint

• Hellenistic

• Stoic

• Ptolemaic

An important purpose of the Delian League was to

• overthrow the military leadership of Sparta

• throw out invaders from Crete

• establish Greek colonies in the western Mediterranean

• resist any attack that Persia might launce

The political form(s) found in the Greek polis was(were)

• democracy

• monarchy

• oligarchy

• all of these

Most of the Greek mainland is made up of

• rugged mountains

• a wide floodplain

• low-lying hills

• unusually fertile farmland

The city-state of Sparta was characterized by

• democratic institutions

• an emphasis on temple worship

• an emphasis on warfare

• dependence upon the sea