HS World History Ch 3 Test

The basic political unit of Greece was the

• Olympiad

• Parthenon

• acropolis

• polis

Who wrote a textbook on geometry called Elements?

• Eratosthenes

• Archimedes

• Pythagoras

• Euclid

Greeks were hindered in political unity because of a lack of

• geographic unity

• common religion

• common customs

• shared language

What term refers to a rule by force?

• monarchy

• tyranny

• democracy

• oligarchy

The alliance formed by Athens to protect Greece from further Persian attack was called the

• Delian League

• Spartan League

• Peloponnesian League

• Corinthian League

Sparta formed which league to protect against foreign invasion and to prevent tyranny and democracy?

• Spartan League

• Peloponnesian League

• Corinthian League

• Delian League

Alexander the Great's father, who united Macedonia, was

• Xerxes

• Philip II

• Darius III

• Pericles

Sparta's government would be classified as

• a democracy

• an oligarchy

• a monarchy

• an anarchy

Which of the following is not true of Aristotle?

• He taught Alexander the Great

• He was an Athenian

• He developed the syllogism

• He wrote the Organon

What invaders conquered the Mycenaean civilization in 1200 BC and ushered in a new period of Greek history?

• Minoans

• Dorians

• Persians

• Trojans