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Minoan palaces resembled the pyramids and ziggurats of ancient Egypt and Sumeria. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The task of translating Linear B was facilitated by its similarity to an early form of the Greek spoken language. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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When the Greeks regained the skill of writing after about 800 B.C., it was used not only for commercial purposes, but also for writing poetry. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Greek gods surpassed humans in their omnipotence and transcendence of both the flaws and the virtues of the humans that worshipped them. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Eupalinus, an engineer in the sixth century B.C., constructed an enormous tunnel which supplied a city on the island of Samos with fresh water. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The rational inquiries of some early Greek thinkers were sometimes met with suspicion and accusations of impiety by more religious Greeks. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Between 650 and 550 B.C., tyrants rose to power through hereditary connections. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Olives, and the oil pressed from them, formed the basis of the economic prosperity of the poleis. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Men and women shared tasks equally in the Greek household. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Prostitutes enjoyed some legitimacy in Greek social and political life. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Around 600 B.C., Athenian prosperity led to democratic political reforms. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Cleisthenes’ constitution, adopted in 508 B.C., allowed for more direct democratic participation in Athens. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Spartans created a militaristic state in part to keep control of the helot population. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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When the Persians first invaded the Greek peninsula in 490 B.C., the Spartans came to the aid of their Athenian neighbors immediately. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Herodotus relied on myths and the Greek heroic tradition to construct his history of the Persian wars. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Athenians seized control of the Delian League, but allowed the member city-states to control the treasury of the league. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Pericles encouraged more democracy in Athenian politics by introducing payment for participation as a juror or in the Council of 500. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The architects who created the Parthenon used optical illusion to create a vision of perfect proportion. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In Sophocles' most famous series, The Theban Plays, the main character Oedipus avoids fulfilling the prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother. ___ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Alcibiades was accused of impiety when he allegedly destroyed a statue of Hermes and mocked religious rituals. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Sparta, along with the other allies in the Peloponnesian League, challenged Athenian power in 431 B.C.. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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When the people of Melos sought neutrality, the Athenians respected their wishes and protected them from enslavement by the Spartans. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Socrates challenged the moral relativism of the Sophists and tried to explore the nature of right action. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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We know of Socrates’ ideas from the writings of his student Plato. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Playwrights used tragedy to criticize Greek society, but comedy never challenged the ideas or political problems of the time. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Hippocrates reinforced the idea that supernatural forces were at the root of all illnesses. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The wars among the poleis, sometimes fomented by the Persians, led to a decrease in democratic forms of government. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In Ancient Greece, the word for a city-state and its surrounding countryside is "polis." _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Greeks tended to view foreigners as "barbarians" and "enemies." _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Greek sculptors and painters tried to represent the reality (instead of an idealized version) of the human form. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Herodotus chronicled the events of the Peloponnesian War. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Minoan society was eventually invaded and devastated by armies from the Greek mainland. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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