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Study Guide for Test on Ancient Greece
Part I: Fill-ins from outlines, notes and reading (60%)
Many (but not necessarily all) of the terms below will be fill-ins (with a word box).
As always, you should know both the general meaning of each term and also how
it applies to ancient Greece.
city-states
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democracy
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oligarchy
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tyrant
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citizen
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Athens
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Golden Age
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Pericles
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Acropolis
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agora
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Delian League _______________________________________________________________
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Spartans
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Socrates
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Part II: Mult. Choice Fr. The Greek Gods Packets
(10%)
--What Cronos does to his children; what Zeus and Rhea do in response.
--How Zeus wins.
--How Athena/e is born and how/why she battles with Ares.
--The underworld, the afterlife, and the story of Hades, Demeter, and Persephone.
--How Zeus treats Apollo and Artemis. Know the various names of Artemis.
--General info about Apollo, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Aphrodite: their characteristics, things
they do, of what they are gods, etc.
Part III: Short Answers (30%)
Short answers will be drawn from the following Possible Topics:
a. How the geography of Greece affected its early development.
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b. Two or more things that led to democracy in Athens.
c. Differences between Athens and Sparta: know details from more than one "category."
d. Two aspects of the Golden Age of Athens (or two ways in which Pericles wanted to
improve Athens). Know general categories and specific examples.
e. Two causes and two results of the Peloponnesian War.
Possible Bonuses:
1.) Anything from film notes that is not already on this study guide.
2.) Anything from outlines that is not already on this study guide,
particularly...
--contemporary geography/ borders from the first outline.
--"Greek Gifts," categories and specific examples.