Chapter 5 Study Guide Questions
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Know the following terms: polis, acropolis, Metics, archons, pedagogue, rhetoric, aristocracy, terracing,
ethics
What is the Delian League?
City states run by groups of nobles were known as whom?
Who defeated the Persian Navy at Salamis straight?
The Iliad tells the story of what?
Most city-states develop around what?
What was the purpose of the Olympic Games?
Who is the earliest known Greek civilization?
How did Sparta win the Peloponnesian War?
How did Pericles anger other members of the Delian League?
What navy defeated the Persian Navy at Salamis Straight?
Describe the Spartan half-citizen.
What is the role of the ephors?
What form of government was established under Cleisthenes?
Athenians believed in spending money of what?
What rights did Athenian women have?
Who produced Athens’ first written code of law?
Where could Greeks speak to gods and goddesses?
Who was captured by the Spartans as they invaded the Peloponnesus?
What contributed to the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
The Persian War was the result of Greek Uprisings in Asia Minor.
Essay Question and Answer.
o Compare the social classes in Spartan society with those in the Athenian society.
o Citizens in Athens and equals in Sparta were males who could vote and own property.
o Metics in Athens and half citizens in Sparta were free and paid taxes but could not take part in
government or own land.
o Athens’s slaves and Sparta’s helots had no political rights