Exam 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization

Who ruled Spartan government?

By the time the last tyrants left,they were universally hated for their ________.

Which of the following was always awarded to winners of the Olympics?

Hesiod's Works and Days gives insight into the life of a(an)________.

Archons served for only a year and were checked by their colleagues,as they looked forward to a lifetime as a member of the ________,the true master of the Athens state.

Which of the following people was most likely to be buried in a tholos tomb?

Describe Homer's view of women.Was his view of women largely positive,largely negative,or a combination of both?

Greek colonies,established for the good of the colonists,were sponsored by ________.

Of the hundreds of Greek states in 480B.C.E,only ________ were willing to fight the Persians.

Which of the following is one of the indirect causes of the growth in the numbers of enslaved Athenians in the seventh century b.c.e.

Some scholars have suggested that a group of pirates known as ________ destroyed Pylos.

Although Homer's Mycenaean heroic characters worshipped gods in temples,in real life it would not have occurred because Mycenaeans ________.

Who was fairly called the "father of Athenian democracy"?

A ________ was a carefully organized occasion,the center of aristocratic social life.

A tyrant was a ________ who gained power in an unorthodox way.

The Athenians came across a rich vein of ________ in the state mines.

Which of the following correctly identifies the four classes in Homeric society?

By confronting the Greeks with the differences between themselves and the new people they met,colonization gave them a sense of cultural identity and fostered a ________ spirit.

Miltiades,who had fled from Persian service,led the Greeks to a vital victory over the Persians at ________.

After the withdrawal of the Spartans from Athens,Clisthenes,who had lost his political power to nobility,took the unprecedented action of ________.