Ancient Greece Test Review

Which of the following was caused the Peloponnesian War?

• Struggles between Greece and Persia
• Struggles between Athens and Sparta
• Struggles between Greece and Macedonia
• Struggles between Greece, Persia and Macedonia.

What was the name of the group whose members agreed to protect each other from Persia and give money or ships for defense?

• Persian League
• Pelopponesian League
• Delian League
• Spartan League

Why did Sparta want to weaken Athens’s power in ancient Greece?

• feared Athens’s control over the Delian League
• resented Athens’s fame as a center of art and learning
• feared Athens’s democratic form of government
• resented the power of the Delian League

Which of the following completes the analogy?
Athens is to Democracy as Sparta is to ____________________

• military
• dictatorship
• oligarchy
• autocracy

Which of the following was the most famous for a mathematical theorem named after him?

• Socrates
• Plato
• Archimedes
• Pythagoras

What was the main political unit in ancient Greece?

• village
• polis
• agora
• Peloponneseus

What was the Greek phalanx composed of?

• soldiers on horseback
• Spartan women
• aristocrats
• foot soldiers

In what kind of government do citizens elect other people to make decisions on their behalf?

• aristocracy
• oligarchy
• direct democracy
• representative democracy

At the Battle of Marathon, who did the Athenian phalanxes defeat?

• Spartans
• Ionians
• Persians
• Sicilians

What alliance did the oligarchies of Greece form for mutual protection?

• Spartan League
• Ionian League
• Delian League
• Pelopponesian League