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Chapter 4 Sample 1 Test
Sam LaVictoire

1. What was Homer’s two great poems?

2.  Name two ways in which Sparta and Athens were different.

3.  A form of government in which a few rule over the man is called a(n)_______________________________.   A form of government in which many rule is called a(n) _______________________.   A form of government in which a royal family rules is called a(n)_______________________________.

4.  Why did the Persian king Darius decide to go to war with Athens?

5.  What is the name of a battle, fought on a plain near Athens, where the Athenians defeated the Persians?

6.  What is the name of the battle where only 300 Spartans under Leonidas slowed down the advance of the Persians?

7.  What were the two most important Greet city-statse?

8. The name of Pericles when great art flourished is also called the ______________  _________________ of Athens? ( two words)

9.  What caused the Peloponnesian War?

10.  Which philosopher was forced to drink hemlock because of his devotion to truth?

11.   Who were Plato and Aristotle?

12.  Who is called the Father of Medicine?

13.  Why was Philip of Macedon able to conquer the Greek city states?

14.  Name one thing Alexander the Great accomplished.

15.  What war is retold in Homer’s two great poems?

16.  Name three ways in which Athens differed from Sparta.

17.  Please define the following and for each give an example of a Greek state:

Oligarchy

Democracy

18.  Why did the Persian king Darius want to invade Greece?

19.  Why did Darius fail to conquer Greece?

20.  Who led the Athenians at  Salamis?

21.  Why is the age of Pericles called the Golden Age of Greece?

22.  Why did the court of Athens condemn Socrates to death?

23.  Identify the following:

Plato

Aristotle

Hippocrates

24.  How did Alexander the Great help spread the Greek culture?

25.  Name three ways  Greek culture has influenced Western civilization.

26.  Name two of the three types of Greek columns