Study Guide for Greece/ Rome Test- Chapter 5/6
1. Where did the Minoans get their name from?
2. Palace where the Minoan rulers lived
3. The first Greek speaking peoples with a written record.
4. War that broke out in 431 b.c between Sparta and Athens
5. Was the Trojan War real?
6. Who was Homer?
7. Define: polis
8. Who was Herodotus?
9. Define citizen
10. Warring city-state in southern Greece.
11. Greek religion was______
12. Who fought in the Persian Wars?
13. Why did Darius attack Greece?
14. Where did Darius attack Athens?
15. Who sent a huge army into Greece to get revenge for his father.
16. A naval victory for Greece
17. League formed after the Persian Wars
18. Define :philosophers
19. Method of asking questions and then challenging them
20. Socrates famous student
21. Book Plato wrote that promoted strong Government rulers
22. City-state that formed a democratic government
23. Student of Plato, promoted reason, set up a school
24. Greek drama that focused on hardships
25. Early philosopher and stonemason
26. Greek drama plays that exposed the flaws of society
27. Describe Phillip II
Define the following:
28. Alexander the Great
29. Logic
30. The Illiad
31. Heliocentric
32. The Oddyssey
33. Pericles
34. Phalanx
35. Archimedes
36. Rhetoric
37. Acropolis
38. Direct Democracy
39. Oligarchy
40. Aristocracy
41. Democracy
42. Oligarchy
43. Monarchy
44. In Rome,what does inflation mean?
45. What is a Republic?
46. Landholding upper class in Rome
47. Members of the lower class in Rome
48. What are Tribunes?
49. Define legion
50. Who fought in the Punic Wars?
51. Said- “ Veni, vidi, vici”
52. What does “Augustus” maen?
53. This group was a major threat to Rome’s borders.
54. Means Roman Peace
55. Wrote the Aeneid
56. Define; aqueduct
57. Define dictator
58. Rome practiced Imperialism after the Punic Wars. What does that mean?
59. Define Greco-Roman
60. Define satire
61. What did Ptolemy propose about the universe?
62. Emperor that divided the Roman Empire.