rise of west exam 2

Question 1: Spartan slave

Helot

Question 2: Tightly packed company of soldiers with ranks of overlapping shields

Phalanx

Question 3: Macedonian philosopher and scientist who established the Lyceum and tutored Alexander the Great

Aristotle

Question 4:

School of Athens (or Plato and Aristotle)

Question 5: One of the leading Sophists, friend of Pericles

Protagoras

Question 6: Famous ruler who established the Old Babylonian empire

Hammurabi

Question 7:

Alexander the Great (on Bucephalus)

Question 8: Historian who narrated the sad tale of the strife between Athens and Sparta

Thucydides

Question 9: Heroic king of Sparta who gave his life to stop the Persians in the Second Persian War

Leonidas

Question 10: The most important hill in Athens, the site of the Parthenon

Acropolis

Question 11: Alexander's first major battle in Persia and a demonstration of his military genius

Battle of the Granicus

Question 12: Philosopher, developed a materialistic philosophy that focused on life being about the enjoyment of pleasure

Epicurus

Question 13: A Mediterranean language script that has never been translated

Linear A

Question 14: Hymns to Dionysus eventually evolved into this form of theatre focusing on inescapable suffering

Tragedy

Question 15: The "father of history," wrote a history of the Persian Wars

Herodotus

Question 16: The arc of agriculturally productive land where Mesopotamian archaic civilization first took root

Fertile Crescent

Question 17: The large, round shield of the Greek infantryman

Hoplon

Question 18: The great Carthaginian general who led an army, including war elephants, across the Alps and into Italy

Hannibal

Question 19: For Herodotus, he is the ideal king; allowed the Jewish people to return from exile to rebuild the temple

Cyrus the Great

Question 20: Philosopher who wrote philosophical "dialogues" where he developed his theory of forms

Plato

Question 21: Greek god of wisdom, order, and rationality

Apollo

Question 22: Famous playwright and author of the Oresteia, the trilogy that began with Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Question 23: Pericles' nephew, student of Socrates, found himself in the midst of the political concerns of Athens during the Peloponnesian War

Alcibiades

Question 24: Led the Athenians to victory at Salamis

Themistocles

Question 25: Greek infantry soldier

Hoplite

Question 26: Greek god of wine, chaos, and the irrational forces of nature

Dionysus

Question 27: Nicknamed "The Iceman," his body was found frozen in a glacier

Ötzi

Question 28: Period when Egypt reached the pinnacle of power and prosperity

New Kingdom

Question 29: Hellenistic philosophy that preached the embracing of the inevitable in life through mastery of one's emotions

Stoicism

Question 30: The decades-long war between Athens and Sparta

Peloponnesian War

Question 31:Aphrodite of Knidos

Question 32: Mesopotamian creation story featuring the battle between Tiamat and Marduk

Enuma Elish

Question 33: The "gadfly of Athens," one of the most important philosophers in history and teacher of Plato

Socrates

Question 34: Famous playwright and author of Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

Question 35: Greek word for city-state, the fundamental institution of Ancient Greece

Polis

Question 36: Son of Philip II, he created one of the world's largest empires by the age of 32

Alexander the Great

Question 37: Semitic people who settled in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period

Hyksos

Question 38: A major city-state of Ancient Greece known for founding democracy

Athens

Question 39: Where 300 Spartans and a few thousand other Greeks held off hundreds of thousands of Persians for three days

Thermopylae

Question 40: A script constructed by wedge-shaped impressions

Cuneiform

Question 41: Location of the Greeks' decisive defeat of Persia during the Second Persian War

Plataea

Question 42: Legendary Trojan warrior who found his way to Italy and founded Rome

Aeneas

Question 43: Spartan general who led Greece to victory at Plataea

Pausanias

Question 44: A militaristic polis, one of the two major city-states of Ancient Greece

Sparta

Question 45: Lawgiver of Sparta

Lycurgus

Question 46: Led the second wave of Persians into Greece; Herodotus stressed his hubris

Xerxes I

Question 47:

Laocoön and His Sons

Question 48: The earliest known Greek civilization, centered around Crete

Minoan

Question 49: An Athenian tyrant credited for founding democracy

Cleisthenes

Question 50: Greek translation of the Old Testament

Septuagint

Question 51: The league Athens led in opposition to the Spartan league

Delian League

Question 52: Persian emperor who had to deal with the military campaigns of Alexander the Great

Darius III

Question 53: The lawgiver of Athens

Solon

Question 54:

Discobolus (by Myron)

Question 55: Built by Phidias, it exemplifies the Athenian ideal of rationality

The Parthenon

Question 56: Location of a famous naval battle where Greece routed the Persians

Salamis

Question 57: Where Athenians took their stand and defeated the first wave of invading Persians

Marathon

Question 58: Legendary king of Crete

Minos

Question 59: Location of the famous Greek oracle; over the temple entrance are the words "Know thyself" and "nothing in excess"

Delphi

Question 60:

Acropolis