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Minoan palaces resembled the pyramids and ziggurats of ancient Egypt and Sumeria. |
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The task of translating Linear B was facilitated by its similarity to an early form of the Greek spoken language. |
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When the Greeks regained the skill of writing after about 800 B.C.E., it was used not only for commercial purposes, but also for writing poetry. |
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The Greek gods surpassed humans in their omnipotence and their transcendent perfection. |
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Eupalinus, an engineer in the sixth century B.C.E., constructed an enormous tunnel through a mountain that supplied a city on the island of Samos with fresh water. |
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The rational inquiries of some early Greek thinkers were sometimes met with suspicion and accusation of impiety by more religious Greeks. |
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Between 650 and 550 B.C.E., tyrants legitimized their authority through hereditary connections. |
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Men and women shared tasks equally in the Greek household. |
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Olives, and the oil pressed from them, were an important source of the economic prosperity of some city-states. |
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Prostitutes enjoyed some legitimacy in Greek social and political life. |
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Around 600 B.C.E., Athenian economic prosperity led to democratic political reforms. |
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Cleisthenes' constitution, adopted in 508 B.C.E., allowed for more direct democratic participation in Athens. |
| | A) | True |
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The Spartans created a militaristic state in part to keep control of the helot population. |
| | A) | True |
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When the Persians first invaded the Greek peninsula in 490 B.C.E., the Spartans came to the aid of their Athenian neighbors immediately. |
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Herodotus relied on myths and the Greek heroic tradition to construct his history of the Persian wars. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The architects who created the Parthenon used optical illusion to create a vision of perfect proportion. |
| | A) | True |
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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. |
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Alcibiades was accused of impiety when he allegedly destroyed a statue of Hermes and mocked religious rituals. |
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Sparta, along with the other allies in the Peloponnesian League, challenged Athenian power beginning in 431 B.C.E. |
| | A) | True |
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When the people of Melos sought neutrality, the Athenians respected their wishes and protected them from enslavement by the Spartans. |
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Socrates challenged the moral relativism of the Sophists and tried to explore the nature of right action. |
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Socrates left no writings of his own; we know of his ideas from the writings of his student Plato. |
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Playwrights used tragedy to criticize Greek society, but comedy never challenged the ideas or political problems of the time. |
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Hippocrates reinforced the idea that supernatural forces were at the root of all illnesses. |
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The wars among the poleis, sometimes fomented by the Persians, led to a decrease in democratic forms of government. |
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In Ancient Greece, the word for a city-state and its surrounding countryside is "polis." |
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The Greeks tended to view foreigners as "barbarians" and "enemies." |
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Herodotus chronicled the events of the Peloponnesian War. |
| | A) | True |
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