Summative Assessment Review Unit 1

What is a city-state?

• a city that is an independent political state with its own ruling government

• a peninsula in southwestern Asia; today most of this area is the country of Turkey

• a type of government in which one person illegally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship

What is a Monarchy?

• a type of government in which one person illegally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship

• the upper or noble class whose members’ status is usually inherited

• a government led by a king or a queen

What is an oligarchy?

• the upper or noble class whose members’ status is usually inherited

• a government led by a king or a queen

• a type of government in which one person illegally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship

Who has power in a democracy?

• A king or queen

• A small group of wealthy men

• All citizens

How are leaders chosen in a Democracy?

• They seize power illegally

• A vote

• They inherit power through their bloodline

What is a citizen?

• Legal member of a country

• An illegal member of a country

• Any human

• Nothing

What type of government did Athens have?

• Monarchy

• Democracy

• Tyranny

• Oligarchy

Where were Sparta and Athens located?

• United States

• Italy

• Greece

• China

Who could be a citizen of Athens?

• anyone who was born in Athens

• any male adult

• any male or female adult who had at least one Athenian parent

• any male adult who was not enslaved and who had two Athenian parents

What city-state was the main rival of Athens?

• Carthage

• Olympia

• Sparta

• Peloponnesus