Ancient Classical Greece

What is an important effect of mountainous geography on the city-states of ancient Greece?

• Mountains forced the people to be separated from each other so each city became a separate city-state.

• Mountains made them safe from German invaders

• Mountains kept the Greeks from becoming friends with the French

What Greek city-state believed in Direct Democracy and said people have basic freedoms? People could speak in public and vote directly on laws?

• Athens

• Sparta

• Corinth

What Greek city-state was warlike and had an oligarchy of 5 kings? They had very rigid rules and thousands of slaves called helots to do their work?

• Athens

• Sparta

• Corinth

List 3 Athenian philosophers and their key ideas?

• Socrates (Examine your life)

• Plato (Make a better government)

• Aristotle (Use your senses and logic)

• Confucius (Family is the key)

In ancient Athens, male citizens over the age of 18 met every month to debate and vote on laws. What is this called?

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

• Efficient Democracy

• Orderly Democracy

When the Persians first invaded Greece, Persians were surprise attacked by the Athenian army who crushed the Persians and sent them running back home. What battle was this called?

• Battle of Byzantium

• Battle of Rome

• Battle of Marathon

• Battle of Greece

Because the land of Greece is stony and mountainous the people came to rely on ____.

• agriculture and growing corn

• trade with other people

• farming and growing lettuce

After the Persians left Greece for the last time, an Athenian named Pericles became leader and _______ the city of Athens.

• abandoned

• rebuilt

• conquered

The Golden Age of Greece began to decline when the Peloponnesian War began. Who were the two main cities fighting each other in the Peloponnesian War?

• Thebes and Sparta

• Athens and Sparta

• Macedon and Sparta

All male citizens in ancient Athens had the right to attend the Assembly, where they could meet in open discussion and cast votes. This situation is an example of

• direct democracy
• totalitarianism
• parliamentary democracy
• absolutism