Ancient History Questions
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The ___ or city-state was the basic political unit in Greece
Who took the throne in Macedonia after King Philip II was assassinated?
Which historian examined his sources critically and excluded those that were unreliable?
Which side controlled much of the territory surrounding the Aegean Sea during the Peloponnesian War?
"What is truth" question is associated with?
The Persian emperer Darius attacked the Greek mainland to gain control of Greece's vast natural resources T or F?
After the death of Alexander the Great, Selecus became the pharaoh of Egypt T or F?
___ used careful observations and simple geometry to calculate the circumference of the wars
The Macedonian King ___ conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta before his assassination
___ was the greatest Greek writer of comedy
In the ___, Athens surrendered to Sparta in 404 BC
What is the correct sequence of influential men in the development of democracy in Athens?
Which leader set the stage for Athenian democracy by breaking up the power of noble families?
___, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, is probably the most famous Greek poet
New schools of philosophy developed during the Hellenistic period, in part because ___
Alexander the Greta built the largest empire the world had ever seen T or F?
The ___ was an alliance of several Greek city-states led by Sparta
Two distinct cultures developed in early Greece, the Minoans and the ___
Macedonia was able to take control of all Greece in the 340s BC because the Persian Empire had soundly defeated Athens and Sparta T or F?
A high, walled area within each city-state called a(n) ___ housed temples to the gods and spaces for public ceremonies.