Exam 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece

In the fifth century b.c.e. ,________,the commander of the Athenian army,agreed to a peace of thirty years with Sparta.

The architecture of Periclean Athens emphasized ________.

When Alexander the Great conquered ________ in 333 b.c.e. ,he was greeted there as a liberator.

After the time of Alexander the Great,the Greeks turned to ________ for solutions to their problems.

________ was considered to be the ablest king in Macedonian history.

Pericles proposed a law introducing compensation pay for ________,opening that important duty to the poor.

A relative of Darius of Persia named Bessus ________.

When Darius of Persia made a peace offering to Alexander the Great of his entire empire west of the Euphrates River and his daughter to end the invasion,Alexander ________.

In 399 b.c.e. ,an Athenian jury condemned ________ to death on the charges of bringing new gods into the city and of corrupting the youth.

After Cimon rose to statesman,following the wars with Persia,he ________.

What were the underlying causes of the Great Peloponnesian War? In what respect could this conflict have been avoided? Was conflict between Athens and Sparta essentially inevitable? Discuss the strategies employed by both states and the relative success of each.

Considered "the father of history," ________ was the first to attempt to explain human actions in history and to draw instruction from them.

In the fifth century b.c.e. ,________ were the leading naval power in Greece.

Discuss the vacuum of power created by the collapse of the Athenian Empire.Who were the main competitors in the struggle for power? How did Sparta's military and foreign policies change from the collapse of the Athenian Empire to its own collapse? What accounts for its downfall?

Both the Academy and Lyceum were centers of knowledge in the Greek world.However,the academic and ideological thrust of each institution differed.If you were to have attended each institution in fourth century b.c.e.Athens,what would you have observed at each institution? What was the manner of discourse? What would you have studied? Pick a specific topic or give a general first-person overview of what you would have observed.

What was most significant about the hoplite class being made eligible for the archonship?

The main purpose of the formation of the Delian League was to ________.

A Hellenistic scientist named ________ was able to calculate the circumference of the earth within two hundred miles.

Greek religion emphasized ________.

A pact made in 478 b.c.e.by Athenians and other Greeks to continue the war with Persia was called the ________.