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WorksheetsClassical Greece
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Pericles angered most of the city-states in the Delian League because he
was involved in several political scandals
used the league's money to beautify Athens
insisted that they pay their public officials
moved the treasury to the island of Delos
During the Peloponnesian War, Sparta
seized Athens, forcing people to flee into the countryside
was forced to sign a truce with the powerful Athenian army
destroyed Athen's crops to cut off it's food supply
lost one-third of its population to the plague
What was Hellenistic culture?
practices the Macedonians adopted from the Greeks
the military culture of Philip's new professional army
a course of study taught in Alexandria, Egypt
a blending of learning and customs in lands conquered by Alexander
A typical feature of Greek architecture was
columns
dramatic masks
Ionic pediments
statues of common people
What thinker wrote an influential geometry text?
Aristotle
Archimedes
Euclid
Socrates
Who led the Persian revolt against Medes?
Cyrus II
Darius I
Xerxes I
Plato
While boys in Athens were receiving a good education, girls were
training in the military
learned household tasks
served in the government
played in the streets with other girls
The Spartan Assembly did all of the following except
passed or rejected proposals made by the Council
elected ephors
allowed all male citizens 30 and over to join
served as judges in important cases
For which goddess was the Parthenon built?
Aphrodite
Athena
Helen
Hera
Who build the largest empire that the world had ever seen?
Aristotle
Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great
Xerxes I
