Ancient Greece     Chapter 4

1__ Locate the following  places and explain their significance  to the ancient Greeks:           Crete       Asia Minor

          Balkan Peninsula         Italic Peninsula       Anatolian Peninsula        Persia         Black Sea         Aegean Sea

          Hellespont       Bosporous Strait         Delphi        Athens         Sparta        Corinth          Macedonia

2__ Describe the geography of Greece, explaining the advantages and disadvantages which that geography had for

          the Greeks--including city-states, food (fishing, hunting, farming, herding), trade, travel,

          and government.

3__ What does the word, "polis," mean?

4__ Most Greek city-states had an acropolis.  What was an acropolis?

5__ Athens and Sparta stood at opposite ends of the social and political spectrum represented in ancient

            Greek city states.  Explain the above statement and explain the kinds of personal qualities and work

            that Spartans would value.

6__ Describe the life of a typical Spartan boy.

7__ Describe the impact of the Persian kings, Darius and Xerxes, on Greek history and explain the circumstances

          and significance of the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Platea.

8__ What were the chief forms (sculpture, etc.) and characteristics of Greek art (materials, subject matter, etc.)?

9__ What role did art play in the  lives of Athenians?

10__ What forms of ancient Greek art are extant today, and which of those forms provides us with the best images

            of day-to-day life in ancient Greece?

11__ Identify the great thinkers and artists of Classical Greece and associate them with their significant ideas and/or works

            of art—including Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Euclid, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Eratosthenes,

            Archimedes, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Epicurus (Epicureanism), and Zeno (stoicism)

12__ Explain the religion of the ancient Greeks and include the names and influences of the most important Greek

          gods.

13__ Explain “hubris” and its destructive effects on the central characters of many Greek tragedies.

14__ What would you expect to see on a visit to the acropolis of Athens during the time of Pericles?

15__ Identify the Parthenon and explain why it is considered a paragon of Classical Greek architecture.

16__ Explain how the Greeks became embroiled in the Peloponnesian War and what effect that war had on

            them.

17__ Who was the leader of the kingdom to the north of Greece who took advantage of the Greeks’ reduced

            military, economic, and social condition following the Peloponnesian War?  What was this leader’s

            attitude toward the Greeks?

18__ Identify Alexander the Great and chronicle his rise to world-wide fame.

19__ What cultural effects did Alexander the Great have on the parts of Asia that he conquered?  What label do we

            use to name those effects?

20__ Describe the significance of ancient Greece (especially ancient Athens) for Western Civilization.