5 Written Questions

1. they questioned peoples unexamined beliefs and ideas about justice and other traditional values.
2. He was a general that became emperor in A.D. 284, introduced reforms
3. ancient city southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius
4. foreign soldiers who fought for money
5. Alliance of Athens with other Greek city-states, was formed to protect against threats from persia (after the persian war),

5 Matching Questions

1. arete
2. inflation
3. Direct democracy
4. Macedonians
5. epic

1. a a narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds.
2. b increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money
3. c kingdom north of greece. They lived in mountain villages. most of them (nobles) thought of themselves a greeks, but the actual greeks looked down on them and looked at them as uncivilized foreigners
4. d a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives.
5. e in early Greece, the qualities of excellence that a hero strives to win in a struggle or contest

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. A ruler who has complete power over a country
   1. Tacitus
   2. history
   3. inflation
   4. dictator
2. king of Persia who was defeated by Alexander the Great
   1. Dorians
   2. Diocletian
   3. Tacitus
   4. darius III
3. a Greek-speaking people that, according to tradition, migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization
   they were far less advanced than the mycenaeans.
   little is known about this period of greek history
   1. Dorians
   2. patricians
   3. Tacitus
   4. sophists
4. lived from 354-430 from Hippo Africa and wrote The City of God
   1. senate
   2. saint augustine
   3. inflation
   4. constantine
5. (382 BC - 336 BC) King of Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great. wanted to conquer Greece and the Persia
   1. Virgil
   2. darius III
   3. Pompeii
   4. King Philip II

5 True/False Questions

1. Solon → ancient Greek, a blind man who was great at storytelling, who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey

   True        False

2. senate → a group of 300 men elected to govern Rome, In ancient Rome, the supreme governing body, originally made up only of aristocrats.

   True        False

3. mycenaeans → an Indo-European people who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.
   first Greek-speaking people; invaded Minoans; dominated Greek world 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.; sea traders; lived in separate city-states; invovled in Trojan War against Troy,

   True        False

4. tribal assembly → made up of elected ordinary citizens of Rome; had the power to pass laws and appoint many officials of the state

   True        False

5. Homer → ancient Greek, a blind man who was great at storytelling, who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey

   True        False