Exam 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece

In the winter of 478-477 b.c.e. ,the islanders and the Greeks from the coast of Asia Minor and other Greek cities on the Aegean met with the Athenians on the sacred island of Delos and swore oaths of alliance.They called themselves the Delian League.What were the aims of this new league? Were they successful? If so,how? If not,why not?

After divorcing his first wife,Pericles entered into a liaison with a female companion from Miletus named ________.

Which of the following best describes the military strategy employed by the Spartans?

The acquisition of the Greek state of ________ by Philip of Macedon gave him control of gold and silver mines and allowed him to undermine Athenian control of the northern Aegean.

________ established the theory of the lever in mechanics and invented hydrostatics.

According to the citizenship bill introduced by Pericles,citizenship was limited to those who ________.

King Philip II of Macedon took advantage of his appointment as regent to become king by ________.

In 422 b.c.e. ,Cleon,the leader of Athens,and Brasidas,the leader of Sparta,both died in battle,leading the way to the ________.

The disastrous Great Peloponnesian War was ignited in 435 b.c.e. ,ten years after the Thirty Years' Peace of 445 b.c.e. ,because of a dispute between ________.

According to Empedocles,what two primary forces move the four basic elements,fire,water,earth,and air that compose our universe?

After the collapse of the Athenian Empire,Sparta began to alienate some of its allies,such as Thebes and Corinth,by its ________.

One reason the Athens of 350 b.c.e.was not the thriving Athens of Pericles's time was ________.

Because the Stoics strove for inner harmony of the individual,________.

In 338 b.c.e. ,Philip of Macedon called a meeting of the Greek states to form the ________.

Aristotle considered the middle class to be the most stable because it possessed the quality of ________,which gave power to neither the rich nor the poor.

Greek religion did not emphasize moral conduct to orthodox belief,but rather the faithful practice of ________ meant to win the favor of the gods.

Which of the following best describes Greek life,thought,art,and literature in the century and a half prior to Macedonian conquest?

In 386 b.c.e. ,Plato founded the ________,a center of philosophical investigation and a school for training statesmen and citizens.

Alexander the Great avenged the earlier Persian invasion of Greece by ________.

The Great Peloponnesian War was ignited by a civil war in the Corcyraean colony at ________.