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World History test that i have tm

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What greek city-state is given credit for the development of the Greek language, culture and religion?

a)

Myecenaean

b)

Troy

c)

Athens

d)

Sparta

2.

Which group was in control of Greece during the Greek Dark Ages, where Greek culture and education went backwards?

a)

Dorians

b)

Mycenaeans

c)

Trojans

d)

Minoans

3.

The writer of Greek tragedies, is best known for Oedipus Rex, which is a story about a king killed by his son.

a)

Sophocles

b)

Euripedes

c)

Aeschylus

d)

Aristophanes

4.

This battle led to the defeat of the Persians at sea allowing the land forces of Greece to win the war.

a)

Battle of Thermopylae

b)

Ionian Revolt

c)

Ionian Revolt

d)

Battle of Marathon

5.

What is the name of the area at the top of the hill in greek city-states, and the location of the Parthenon in Athens?

a)

Acropolis

b)

Agora

c)

Polis

d)

Stoa

6.

The geography of Greece was very influential to its development. What was the reasons for this?

a)

River Valleys

b)

Mountains and Lakes

c)

Mountains and Islands

d)

Farmable Land

7.

How did the role of women differ in Athenian Greece and Spartan Greece?

a)

Spartan women were in the assembly.

b)

Spartan women did military training by learning wrestling and boxing.

c)

Athenian women were active in government.

d)

Athenian women owned property.

8.

The battle led by Sparta and Leonidas was a defeat, but allowed the navy forces of Greece to win other battles.

a)

Ionian Revolt

b)

i messed up the question

c)

Battle of Thermopylae

d)

Battle of Marathon

9.

Democracy in ancient Athens gave rights and privileges to which group below?

a)

Foreigners

b)

Citizens

c)

Women

d)

Aliens

10.

Choose the correct order of the following philosophers and their students:

a)

Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Socrates, Plato

b)

Socrates, Plato, Alexander the Great, Aristotle

c)

Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Alexander the Great

d)

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great

11.

This battle led to the Persian defeat of Darius and the eventual wars later by his son Xerxes.

a)

Battle of Thermopylae

b)

Battle of Marathon

c)

Battle of Salamis

d)

Ionian Revolt

12.

Which political reformer brought democracy to the World?

a)

Solon

b)

Draco

c)

Peisistratus

d)

Cleisthenes

13.

Who is mostly credited for the reforms in Athens that brought the ending land debts freeing those bond into slavery?

a)

Plato

b)

Solon

c)

Aristotle

d)

Pericles

14.

Which characteristic was highly esteemed by the Athenians?

a)

Art and Beauty

b)

Physical Strength

c)

Intelligence

d)

Stupidity

15.

Who was the Greek philosopher who spoke on absolute and relative truths, and died by drinking hemlock poison?

a)

Sophocles

b)

Socrates

c)

Aristotle

d)

Plato

16.

Who is known as the father of Medicine?

a)

Sophocles

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Hippocrates

d)

Herodotus

17.

The time period that included the growth of empires in Greece, Rome, Persia, India and China is referred to as the-

a)

Middle Ages

b)

Neolithic Era

c)

Revolutionary Era

d)

Classical Era

18.

Fundmental idea about city life that originated in Greece, is politics & civil participation are essential to city life.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Fundmental idea about city life that originated in Greece, is politics & civil participation are essential to city life.

a)

Persian Wars

b)

Peloponnesian War

c)

Six Day War

d)

Corinthian War

20.

Who was the Greek philosopher who wrote the book The Republic?

a)

Sophocles

b)

Socrates

c)

Aristotle

d)

Plato

21.

Who is known as the father of History?

a)

Sophocles

b)

Aristophanes

c)

Herodotus

d)

Hippocrates

22.

What characteristic was highly esteemed by the Spartans?

a)

Physical Strength

b)

Freedom of Thought

c)

Individuality

d)

Stupidity

23.

He created a vast empire that stretched from Macedonia to Egypt and from Greece to part of India.

a)

Alexander the Great

b)

Phillip II

c)

Cyrus the Great

d)

Peter the Great

24.

What is when Greek ways of life mixed with Persian culture of Middle East to form a new culture?

a)

The Land of the Free

b)

Hellenistic

c)

Sinhalese People

d)

The Himba

25.

Spartan boys joined the military by the age of 7.

a)

True

b)

False