Deck 6: Greece in the Dark and Archaic Ages 1100-500 BCE

Question 1

What is the name given to the southernmost part of mainland Greece?

A)The Chalcidice
B)Roumeli
C)The Peloponnesus
D)Boeotia

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following are units of Dark Age Greek social organization?

A)oikos
B)genos
C)The apeiron
D)phratria (or phratry)

Answer 2

A,B,D

Question 3

The standard form of Greek government as the beginning of the Dark Ages was _______.

A)anarchy
B)democracy
C)oligarchy
D)monarchy

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following was not characteristic of a polis?

A)A polis was not the focus of its citizens' allegiances
B)A polis was wholly independent and often isolated geographically
C)A polis was often centered on a fortified high point called an "acropolis"
D)A polis typically had a centralized city marketplace called an "agora"

Question 5

Greeks in general, and aristocrats in particular, were expected to demonstrate their _______ in some outward form.

A)stasis
B)sympoliteia
C)aretē
D)asylia

Question 6

At the symposium, female company was provided by elegant and sophisticated prostitutes known as _______, or "companions."

A)perioikoi
B)oikistai
C)hetairai
D)georgoi

Question 7

Which of the following was the Greek god associated with wine and ritual madness?

A)Hermes
B)Dionysus
C)Apollo
D)Hestia

Question 8

What is the name of the priestess of Apollo who delivers that god's oracles at Delphi?

A)The Pythia
B)The Tholos
C)The Boulē
D)The Hyllos

Question 9

Twelve cities and peoples formed an _______ that could declare a Sacred War to protect the sanctuary and oracle of Apollo at Delphi.

A)Asylum League
B)Archelaic League
C)Amphictyonic League
D)Apollonian Federation

Question 10

Which two statements are true about the year 776 BCE?

A)That year marks the beginning of what historians call the Archaic Age
B)Pan-Hellenic games at Olympia
C)It is the year that saw the first conflict between the Greeks and the Persian Empire
D)It is the year in which Athens first experimented with a democratic form of government

Question 11

At the beginning of the Archaic Age, the Greeks, thanks to their more maneuverable warships, were able to wrest control of much of Mediterranean trade from which people?

A)The Phoenicians
B)The Egyptians
C)The Persians
D)The Medes

Question 12

Greek colonies maintained sentimental ties to their ______, or mother city, even as they were completely independent of that city.

A)heliopolis
B)philopolis
C)cosmopolis
D)metropolis

Question 13

Greek infantrymen were known as _______.

A)skyroi
B)georgoi
C)hoplites
D)peltasts

Question 14

The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to what figure who may not have been a real person at all?

A)Hesiod
B)Homer
C)Alcaeus
D)Odysseus

Question 15

Which of the following are among the standard subjects of Greek lyric poetry?

A)Heterosexual and homosexual love
B)Warfare as a showcase for excellence and loyalty to the polis
C)The story of the Trojan War and the return of Odysseus
D)The good life, especially wine drinking

Question 16

_______ of Miletus suggested around 570 BCE that everything comes into existence by the separation of opposites in an infinite original mass.

A)Socrates
B)Pindar
C)Anaximander
D)Thales

Question 17

Heraclitus of Ephesus viewed the world as both perpetually in flux and yet governed by an organizing rational force called what?

A)logos
B)apeiron
C)atomoi
D)philosophia

Question 18

The breakdown of ancient Greek dialect patterns in this map is particularly relevant to establishing the historical bases of which of the following?

A)The Lelantine War
B)The emergence of Pan-Hellenic games
C)The rise of tyrants
D)The invasion of the Dorians

Question 19

The column in the middle here represents which order of Greek architecture?

A)Doric
B)Ionic
C)Aeolic
D)Corinthian