WH/WGI Common Assessment #3 Review

Which 2 of these factors helped ancient Greece grow?

• location near the sea

• access to trade routes

• arable land for farming

• weak military

​ (a)   divided ancient Greece into many different city-states.

• Mountains
• Rivers
• Deserts
• Lakes

Herodotus was known as the Father of ______.

• History

• Philosophy

• Art

• Science

Herodotus recorded the history of the war between the Greeks and the _______. ​

• Persians

• Egyptians

• Romans

• Macedonians

Who could vote in the Athenian democratic system?

• adult men

• adult women

• enslaved people

• people under age 18

King Xerxes and the Persians wanted to _______ Greece.

• conquer

• trade with

• be conquered by

• learn from

The Greek city-state system was weakened by the ______________.

• rise of democracy

• Peloponnesian War

• expansion of Greece

• rule of Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great wanted to unite the Greek city-states in order to _____________.

• defeat Persia

• destroy democracy

• expand the Persian Empire

• give up control

How was Greek culture spread in conquered areas?

• one unified religion

• enslavement of conquered people

• Greek features in new cities

• goods taken back to Greece

Match the following figures to what they are known for:

• mathematician

• Euclid

• philosopher

• Homer

• poet

• Plato

• leader

• Alexander