Ancient History Questions
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What values of the ancient Greeks are found in the poems by Homer?
Cause and Effect:Cause: As trade expanded a new middle class emerged that challenged the nobles (aristocrats) for power, and came to rule in some city-states.
How long was the Peloponnesian War, which started in 431 B.C.?
New form of government started by the Athenians?
Most famous Hellenistic scientist who created the lever and pulley?
Put in order oldest to newest- Monarchy, Tyranny, Oligarchy, Democracy, Aristocracy
During the Peloponnesian War, what happened to kill many people inside the walls of Athens? Food shortage, or plague?
Did Pericles lead Athens in a direct democracy or a aristocracy?
T/F- In 480 B.C when Xerxes sent a large force to conquer Greece, Athens, Sparta and other city-states had not yet made an alliance.
T/F- Athens was the wealthiest Greek city-state at one point.
Fix the sentence-Based on an island in the Black Sea, Minoans spread their civilization through a series of conquests.
T/F- The Delian League was an alliance with few city-states dominated by Sparta.
T/F- Athens sent ships to Ionia to rebel against Spartan rule.
Edict of Milan - Worship for Christians is unbanned
Germans take Rome, put in local Germanic king, Fall of Roman Empire in West
JC Declares himself perpetual dictator. He is assasinated
civilizations that emerged during the neolithic age
What was the capital of the Egyptian Kingdom under Menes and his descendants?
Who did unite the Upper and Lower Egyptian regions about 3100 BC?
After the collapse of the Mycenean civilization, Dorians with iron weapons (the Iron Age has begun!) conquered the Greek main and and ruled for about 300years what is this time period called?