Ch 1-3 HH215

The earliest period of human culture, the Paleolithic Age, dates from the _____

The earliest Neolithic societies appeared in _____

The first civilization arose in _____

The first empire in history was established by the _____

After one century, the kingdom of Ur disintegrated due to _____ and invasion

The Sumerians invented the writing system known as _____

Shortly before 1500, the process of smelting _____ was discovered

The great Persian Empire arose in the region that is now modern _____

What became the chief religion of the Persians by the middle of the 6th century B.C.E.

The Israelites lost to history became known as the _____

The Greek school of medicine, led by _____, attempted to understand, diagnose, and cure diseases without any attention to supernatural forces

The _____ gets its name from advances in stone tool technology

What was revealed in the Code of Hammurabi?

Chattel slaves were considered luxuries during most of Mesopotamian history because, unlike debt slaves, ,chattel slaves had to be _____

When the Nile floodwaters receded each year, the left _____

What decision associated with the smelting of iron was made in northern Anatolia around 1100 B.C.E.?

By the fifth century B.C.E., most Greek believed that laws should be obeyed because they are _____

The earliest Bronze Age settlements were _____

Some scholars have suggested that a group of pirates known as _____ destroyed Pylos

Which of the following correctly identifies the four classes in Homeric society?

The Acropolis in Athens s an example of a(n) _____

Until defeated by the Roman legion, the dominant military force in the eastern Mediterranean was the _____

Colonization encouraged trade, industry, and the manufacturing of items as _____

Greek colonies, established for the good of the colonists, were sponsored by _____

A tyrant was a _____ who gained power in an unorthodox way

The Spartan constitution contained which element(s) of government?

Who ruled the Spartan government?

The Spartan assembly consisted of

Which of the following poleis is located in Attica

Who was fairly called the "father of Athenian democracy"?

Hesiod's Work and Days gives insight into the life of a(n) _____

The Persians controlled both sides of the _____, the route to the grain fields beyond the Black Sea.

Miltiades, who had fled from Persian service, led the Greeks to a vital victory over the Persians at _____

The Athenians came across a rich vein of _____ in the state mines

Of the hundreds of Greek states in 480 B.C.E. only _____ were willing to fight the Persians

Aristotle argued that humans can be either the best of animals of the most dangerous of animals depending on whether or not they have _____.

During the Great Invasion, one advantage for the Greeks was _____.

The principal reason the agora-a marketplace and civic center-became the heart of Greek social life was because _____

In the fifth century B.C.E, _____were the leading naval powers in Greece

What is the name given to the protracted struggle between Athens and Sparta?

Pericles proposed a law introducing compensation pay of _____, opening that important duty to the poor

In the Athenian democracy, the people had to approve

Evidence leads historians to believe that the prime responsibility of a respectable Athenian woman was to

The Great Peloponnesian War was ignited by a civil war in the Corcyraean colony at _____.

The _____ brought an end to Sparta's expansion in Asia and caused the eventual destruction of its maritime empire

Considered "the father of history," _____ was the first to attempt to explain human actions in history and to draw instructions from them.

In 339 B.C.E., an Athenian jury condemned _____ to death on the charges of bringing new gods into the city and of corrupting the youth

_____ felt that moral and political reform was the solution to internal stress, class struggle, and to repairing the factional division of the polis.

_____ studied marine biology, which played a large part in his thinking.

Aristotle considered the middle class to be the most stable because it possessed the quality of _____, which gave power to neither the rich nor the poor

King Philip II of Macedon took advantage of his appointment as regent to become king by _____

The acquisition of Greek state of _____ by Philip of Macedon gave him control of gold and silver mines and allowed him to undermine Athenian control of the northern Aegean.

In 338 B.C.E, Philip of Macedon called a meeting of the Greek states to form the _____

When Alexander the Great conquered _____ in 333 B.C.E., he was greeted as there liberator

Epicureans believed that falling _____ swerved in unpredictable ways to produce the things seen in the world

What new city in Egypt was the center of literary production in the third and second centuries B.C.E.?

A Hellenistic scientist named _____ was able to calculate the circumference of the earth within 200 miles

The main purpose of the formation of the Delian League was too_____

After Cimon's ostracism in the spring of 461 B.C.E. Athens made an alliance with the city-state of _____, Sparta's traditional enemy.

After peace was achieved with Persia, why did the Athenians continue collecting funds from the Delian League members?

According to the citizenship bill introduced by Pericles, citizenship was limited to those who _____

Greek religion emphasized _____

The disastrous Great Peloponnesian War was ignited in 435 B.C.E., ten years after the Thirty Year's Peace of 445 B.C.E., because of a dispute between _____

Which of the following best describes the military strategy employed by the Spartans?

Dramatists such as Aeschylus and Sophocles are considered prime examples of what genre of Greek writing?

By Greek standards, Macedon was considered to be a backward , semibarbaric land because _____

In 335 B.C.E., Alexander III (Alexander the Great), pursuing his father's goal, began his plan to conquer _____.

When Darius of Persia made a peace offering to Alexander the Great of his entire empire west of the Euphrates River and his daughter to end the invasion, Alexander _____

Alexander the Great avenged the earlier Persian invasion of Greece by _____

After the time of Alexander the Great, the Greeks turned to _____ for solutions to their problems

What important contribution did Heraclides of Pontus make to the field of astronomy in the fourth century B.C.E.?