Deck 4: The Hellenistic World

Question 1

Talk about:
Philippics

Answer 1

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Question 2

Talk about:
hegemon

Answer 2

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Question 3

Compare and contrast the artistic, literary, and scientific achievements of the Hellenistic age with those of the classical age. How do you account for the differences?

Answer 3

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Question 4

What were the major philosophies of the Hellenistic period? How did they differ from the philosophies of Classical Greece?

Question 5

Talk about:
Philip II

Question 6

Why did Alexander of Macedonia's empire not last beyond his lifetime?

Question 7

To what extent was Hellenistic civilization a hybrid of the cultures of various Greek poleis and traditions from farther east?

Question 8

What made Alexander such a successful general? Give examples from his military campaigns.

Question 9

Talk about:
Demosthenes

Question 10

Talk about:
Hellenistic

Question 11

How did Greek religious practices in the Hellenistic era differ from those in the classical era?

Question 12

Talk about:
Battle of Chaeronea

Question 13

Talk about:
Macedonia

Question 14

Did women's lives improve during the Hellenistic Era? Why or why not?

Question 15

Discuss the rise of Macedonia and its successful take-over of the Greek world, in regards to both Macedonian strengths and Greek weaknesses.

Question 16

Talk about:
Corinthian League

Question 17

Why is Alexander the Great considered to be the first true super-hero of Western Civilization? Is that reputation justified? Why and or why not?

Question 18

Talk about:
Isocrates

Question 19

Discuss the major characteristics of Hellenistic cities. How did these urban centers differ from the Greek city-states of the classical era?

Question 20

In what ways did the life and legacy of Alexander of Macedonia both initiate a break with the past promote a continuation of earlier values and practices?

Question 21

Talk about:
Alexandria(s)

Question 22

Talk about:
Mauryan Empire

Question 23

Talk about:
seige of Tyre

Question 24

Talk about:
Darius III

Question 25

Talk about:
Menander

Question 26

Talk about:
Theocritus

Question 27

Talk about:
gymnasium

Question 28

Talk about:
Hellenistic kingdoms

Question 29

Talk about:
upper-class women in Hellenistic society

Question 30

Talk about:
Hellenistic cities

Question 31

Talk about:
Seleucids

Question 32

Talk about:
Celts

Question 33

Talk about:
Battles of the Granicus River and Issus

Question 34

Talk about:
Attalids and Pergamum

Question 35

Talk about:
Cleopatra VII

Question 36

Talk about:
Battle of Gaugamela

Question 37

Talk about:
Porus and the Battle of Hydaspes

Question 38

Talk about:
Ptolemy II and Arsinoë II

Question 39

Talk about:
Alexander the Great

Question 40

Talk about:
Antigonids

Question 41

Talk about:
Antiochus IV

Question 42

Talk about:
the library in Alexandria

Question 43

Talk about:
Aristarchus of Samos

Question 44

Talk about:
Zeno

Question 45

Talk about:
Hippocrates

Question 46

Talk about:
"Laocoön and His Sons"

Question 47

Talk about:
"A Gaul and His Wife"

Question 48

Talk about:
Stoicism

Question 49

Talk about:
"Eureka!"

Question 50

Talk about:
Judas Maccabaeus

Question 51

Talk about:
mystery cults

Question 52

Talk about:
syncretism

Question 53

Talk about:
Epicurus and Epicureanism

Question 54

Talk about:
Eratosthenes

Question 55

Talk about:
Polybius

Question 56

Talk about:
cults of Eleusis and Isis

Question 57

Talk about:
Hanukkah

Question 58

Talk about:
the Gandhara Buddhist statues

Question 59

Talk about:
Euclid

Question 60

Talk about:
Archimedes

Question 61

The Hellenistic states in the centuries after Alexander the Great

A) became despotic monarchies.
B) rarely fought amongst themselves.
C) included large numbers of non-Greeks in leadership positions.
D) showed little innovation in their armies and military institutions.
E) all disappeared by the second century B.C.E.

Question 62

Isocrates

A) condemned Philip II for his aggression against the Greek city states.
B) agreed with Demosthenes that Alexander would be an improvement over Philip II.
C) hoped that Philip would unite the Greek world in a campaign against Persia.
D) was put to death for criticizing the gods.
E) supported Alexander of Macedonia in his struggle against his father, Philip.

Question 63

The Antigonid kingdom was located in

A) Palestine.
B) Egypt.
C) Macedonia.
D) Syria and Mesopotamia.
E) India.

Question 64

Scholarship on the legacy of Alexander the Great has suggested he sought

A) to emulate the Homeric warrior-hero Achilles.
B) to create a new ruling class in which only Greeks would attain positions of political authority.
C) to refuse divine status, despite requests by his subjects to vote him a living god.
D) encouraged rural development and prohibited the establishment of new cities for fear of rebellion by newly conquered peoples.
E) All of the above.

Question 65

The famous Indian ruler who sent Buddhist missionaries to Greek rulers was

A) Akbar.
B) Asoka.
C) Chandragupta.
D) Shiva.
E) Bodhisattva.

Question 66

The Hellenistic era describes an age that saw

A) the extension and imitation of Greek culture throughout the ancient Near East.
B) the absence of autocratic power for nearly three centuries.
C) the disappearance of a Greek cultural legacy until Roman times.
D) Alexander's successors maintain a united empire until Roman times.
E) the disappearance of Greek religious beliefs and practices.

Question 67

The Greek general who took Egypt after Alexander's death and converted it into the longest-lasting Hellenistic kingdom was

A) Ptolemy.
B) Brassius.
C) Seleucis.
D) Antigonis.
E) Bucephalus.

Question 68

Which of the following Hellenistic kingdoms was the largest and controlled much of the old Persian Empire?

A) Antigonid.
B) Ptolemaic.
C) Seleucid.
D) Attalid.
E) Hashemite.

Question 69

Shortly after taking the throne, Alexander dealt swiftly and harshly with a Greek rebellion by sacking the city of

A) Athens.
B) Thebes.
C) Sparta.
D) Corinth.
E) all of the above.

Question 70

Which of the following was not one of Philip II's military reforms?

A) He abandoned the phalanx formation as too ineffective and inefficient.
B) He made use of cavalry contingents in breaking the opposing line of battle.
C) His warriors used a longer thrusting spear, double that of the Greek hoplite.
D) He made use of engineers who designed catapults to destroy enemy fortifications.
E) His infantrymen carried smaller shields and shorter swords than Greek hoplites.

Question 71

Alexander's military success against the Persians was in part attributable to

A) the chronic weakness of the Persian Empire.
B) numerically superior forces.
C) the role of Alexander's cavalry as a strike force.
D) troop loyalty in all campaigns.
E) his corps of archers.

Question 72

At the Battle of Chaeronea (338 B.C.E.), Philip II

A) was killed, leaving Alexander in control of Greece.
B) drove the Persian navy out of the Aegean Sea.
C) unified Macedon for the first time in its history.
D) suffered a humiliating defeat.
E) defeated the Greek poleis, ending their independence.

Question 73

Talk about:
Herophilus and Erasistratus

Question 74

Which of the following was Alexander's last battle against the Persian king Darius?

A) Issus.
B) Tyre.
C) Gordium.
D) Guagamela.
E) Gaza.

Question 75

At the Battle of Gaugamela,

A) Alexander's men heavily outnumbered the Persian forces.
B) Alexander broke through the center of the Persian line with his heavy cavalry, followed by the infantry.
C) The Persians were unable to use their war chariots because the narrow battlefield limited their maneuverability.
D) Persian king Darius was killed at the end of the battle.
E) Alexander was forced to retreat back to Susa after his defeat.

Question 76

In his Philippics , Demosthenes

A) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Greek freedom.
B) foresaw a revival of Athenian culture under the leadership of Philip II.
C) glorified the Macedonian armies as the saviors of Greece.
D) praised Philip II for freeing the Ionian cities.
E) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Persia.

Question 77

Philip II planned to defeat the Greek cities by

A) buying their submission.
B) undermining their morale with propaganda.
C) breaking up their hoplite formations with cavalry.
D) wearing them down by pinprick attacks.
E) destroying their walls with heavy cannons.

Question 78

Which of the following statements concerning the emergence of the Macedonians is correct ?

A) The early Macedonians were greatly admired by the Greeks for their cultural achievements.
B) The Macedonians were probably not Greek.
C) The Macedonians organized themselves in city-states like their southern Greek neighbors.
D) The Greeks prohibited them from participating in the Olympic Games.
E) Macedonia emerged as an important kingdom during the Greek Archaic Age.

Question 79

Alexander the Great's conquests in Asia occurred despite

A) his lack of military expertise prior to his father's assassination.
B) the Persian king Darius III's refusal to make any peace settlements and resort to guerilla warfare.
C) the lack of a strong cavalry and inability to capture Egypt.
D) his eventual difficulties in convincing his troops to fight so far from home.
E) violent opposition back in Greece by most of the city-states.

Question 80

Alexander the Great's troops rebelled when he made the decision to invade and capture

A) Arabia.
B) Pergamum.
C) India.
D) Cochin.
E) Bactria.