Age of Pericles - 7.4

Sparta formed the Delian League with Sparta to conquer the rest of the Greek city-states.

• True

• False

Athens form of government was a representative democracy.

• True

• False

Which type of government elects a smaller group of citizens to make laws and run the government?

• direct democracy

• communism

• representative democracy

• oligarchy

The woman whose work helped to shape Plato's ideas.

• Thucydides

• Leonidas

• Aspasia

• Pericles

historian who wrote History of the Peloponnesian War

• Thucydides

• Leonidas

• Aspasia

• Pericles

great Athenian statesman who wrote the famous Funeral Oration

• Thucydides

• Leonidas

• Aspasia

• Pericles

Which type of government has all citizens gather at mass meetings to decide on governmental matters?

• direct democracy

• communism

• representative democracy

• oligarchy

Which group promised to defend its members against the Persians?

• The Athenian League

• The Peloponnesian League

• The North Aegean Sea Treaty Organization

• The Delian League

What did Pericles believe was more important than his or her social standing?

• talent

• wisdom

• appearance

• wealth

Philosophers are thinkers who ponder . . .

• questions about life

• questions about death

• questions about the gods

• questions about theatre