2025 Ancient Greece

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: The ________ civilization was the first to arise in ancient Greece.

• Phoenician

• Mycenaean

• Dorian

• Minoan

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Which factor or factors started the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization?

• the Trojan War

• economic collapse and lack of written language

• earthquakes and civil war

• migration

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Greek city-states were run by their

• soldiers.

• citizens.

• politicians.

• kings.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question: Under the Greek definition of citizen, who qualified for citizenship?

• free, native-born men who owned land

• any man, whether he owned land or not

• wealthy women who owned land

• foreign-born or native-born men, who may or may not have been landowners

The type of leader in power in Greece around 600 B.C.E. due to growing political unrest among city-states was a(n) _________.

• democrat

• ephor

• oligarch

• tyrant

What did Sparta use to control its citizens?

• the helots

• the military

• the government

• forced physical fitness

Spartan women were trained in

• cooking, cleaning, and combat.

• art, music, and poetry.

• sewing, sword-fighting, and trade.

• running, wrestling, and javelin throwing.

In what way did a boy’s life in Athens differ from a boy’s life in Sparta?

• Athenian boys went to school; Spartan boys served in the military.

• Athenian boys studied combat; Spartan boys played sports.

• Athenian boys lived in barracks; Spartan boys lived at home.

• Athenian boys became citizens at 30; Spartan boys became citizens at 18.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Persian King Darius I

• did away with separate governors in each province.

• sent the Zoroastrians into exile.

• established a citizen army to serve during times of war.

• reorganized the Persian government to make it more efficient.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Cyrus the Great held his growing empire together by

• establishing harsh military rule.

• limiting travel between provinces.

• treating conquered people fairly.

• building strong fortresses in each conquered land.