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Unit 7 Study Guide

Word Bank : Free men over age 21 Assembly Greek ZeusHomer temple Parthenon travel

Sparta soldiers Trojan Horse

1. The Minoans and Mycenaeans were the first people of what culture? ______________________2. Who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey? ______________________________________________3. Which group of people was probably highly valued in Sparta? ___________________________4. What trick helped the Greeks to win the Trojan War? __________________________________5. Which Greek god did the Olympics festival honor? _____________________________________6. The sea was used for _______________________________ and a food resource for the Greeks.7. Who decided on the laws and policies in Athens? ______________________________________8. Who would be included in Greek government? ________________________________________9. Which city-state would be against changing the way their military was organized? ____________10. Below is a picture of the ______________________ and it was originally used as a ___________

True False: If False re-write to make it true

11. True or False: It was easy to transport goods over land on the mountainous peninsula. ______________________________________________________________________________

12. True or False: The Greeks used myths to explain events in nature and to explain their history ______________________________________________________________________________

13. True or False: The time period after Alexander’s death was called the Classical Era. ______________________________________________________________________________

14. True or False: In Alexander’s empire all lands shared a common Greek culture ______________________________________________________________________________

15. True or False: the Greek epic poem The Iliad is about King Odysseus journey back home ______________________________________________________________________________

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Greek Columns

16. What are the three styles of Greek columns?a. _____________________________________b. _____________________________________c. ______________________________________

17. Which style of column has the simplest capital? _______________________________________18. The Parthenon has 46 columns and they were all __________________________ columns.

Greek Philosophers

19. Who are the three main Greek philosophers?a. _____________________________________________________b. _____________________________________________________c. _____________________________________________________

20. Who wrote The Republic the first political science book? ________________________________21. Who was Alexander the Great’s teacher? ____________________________________________22. Why would the philosophers value learning

______________________________________________________________________________23. How did the philosophers view on free thought and knowledge impact American thinking?

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Greek Government

24. What type of government was found primarily in Athens? _______________________________25. What type of government was found primarily in Sparta? _______________________________26. Whose government type did American model their government after? _____________________

Alexander the Great

27. Alexander became king of _______________________________________ around the age of 20.28. _________________ and ________________ were conquered between the years 334-330 BC by

Alexander the Great and his army.29. According to the map Alexander’s armies moved from the _____________ to the ____________

30. Persian War: List the battles in chronological order, write who won the battle beside itThermopylae Marathon Plataea Salamis

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Timeline: Place the events in chronological order on the timeline; remember to stagger events

800 BC Greek Dark Ages ended

323 BC Alexander Dies

1240 BC Civil War in Mycenae began

c. 700 BC Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey

1100 BC Greek Dark Ages began

AD 1868 Troy is rediscovered

31. What occurred immediately before the Dorian invasion?

32. How long did the Greek Dark Ages last?

33. How many years passed between Homer writing the Iliad and the Odyssey and the discovery of the ruins at Troy?

34. Where would this event fall between on the timeline “c. 1200 B.C. the Trojan war begins” A, B, C, or D

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