8th grade 3

In ancient Athens, a lawmaking assembly met in a central place. Any male adult citizen could attend the meetings.

The process described gave power to citizens by making sure that laws

• were applied to powerful leaders

• represented the will of citizens

• benefited the wealthy

• changed each year

In ancient Athens, courts made of citizens chosen at random met to decide cases and give sentences. Jurors were chosen by lottery from all adult male citizens.

The process described helped make sure that male citizens were

• given speedy trials

• tried by their peers

• allowed to post bail

• informed of their rights

Which statement BEST describes a difference in the treatment of girls in ancient Athens and Sparta?

• 
  Athenian girls were taught household duties by their mothers while Spartan girls were trained in sports and fitness.

• Spartan girls were required to serve in the military while Athenian girls were sent to relatives to learn a trade

• Spartan girls were trained to hunt and fish while Athenian girls were taught to farm.

• Athenian girls were sent to school while Spartan girls were taught at home.

In ancient Greece, people depended on the sea. Ancient Greeks used ships to carry olives, pottery, and other goods to locations across the Mediterranean Sea.  

What was likely an effect of the process described in the information?

• Greek culture spread over a wide area

• Greek armies fought few wars.

• 
  The wealth of Greece decreased as goods went to other places.

• The population of Greece decreased as people left to settle colonies.

The need for land and resources caused ancient Greek city-states to

• establish colonies

• limit foreign trade

• practice plantation farming

• 
  distribute food and goods equally.

Use the excerpt to answer the question.

For the Athenians were exacting and oppressive, using coercive measures toward men who were neither willing nor accustomed to work hard. And for various reasons they soon began to prove less agreeable leaders than at first. They no longer fought upon an equality with the rest of the confederates, and they had no difficulty in reducing them when they revolted. Now the allies brought all this upon themselves; for the majority of them disliked military service and absence from home, and so they agreed to contribute a regular sum of money instead of ships. Whereby the Athenian navy was proportionately increased, while they themselves were always untrained and unprepared for war when they revolted.

—from Thucydides Translated Into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, and Index, Andrew Preston Peabody, 1883

What process is described in the excerpt?

• the strengthening of the Athenian empire

• the rebuilding of the Athenian Empire

• the hiring of Athenian workers

• the training of Athenian soldiers

Tragedy and comedy were two forms of art developed in ancient Greek

• music

• theater

• architecture

• pottery

Which statement is TRUE of both the Athenian and the Spartan governments?

• Both had inherited a monarchy

• Both had courts that reviewed laws.

• Both had some type of general assembly

• Both allowed women to vote on some major issues.

The story of the Trojan horse recorded in the Iliad is about an ancient Greek 

• 
  artistic achievement.

• religious celebration

• public monument.

• military siege

Who united the city-states of Greece and conquered the Persian Empire?

• Alexander the Great

• Augustus Caesar

• Confucius

• Saladiin