The Geography Of Ancient Greece

The Geography Of Ancient Greece
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The Geography Of Ancient Greece
1. The geography of ancient Greece
(A) unified the city-states
(B) made farmland scarce
(C) prevented overseas trade
(D) made city-states vulnerable to overseas invasion
(E) led to large-scale cattle ranches
2. Bearing male children brought special honors to a woman in ancient
Athens because
(A) male children were necessary to protect and support their parents
(B) male children were automatically assumed to be legitimate
(C) female children were regularly sold into slavery
(D) only men could pass Athenian citizenship on to their offspring
(E) female children were not citizens
3. All actions of the Peloponnesian League were approved by
(A) Athens
(B) Sparta
(C) Thebes
(D) Corinth
(E) Macedonia
4. All of the following are basic beliefs of Zoroastrianism EXCEPT that
(A) humans are born as sinners and have a compulsion to be sinful
(B) water and fire are agents of ritual purity
(C) the world is a battlefield between good and evil forces
(D) there is an afterlife
(E) there will be an ultimate judgment day
5. Hippocratic medical doctrine included all of the following EXCEPT
that it
(A) made little or no mention of a divine role in sickness and cures
(B) influenced the oath that modern medical graduates initially swear
to uphold
(C) was the first to propose the germ theory of disease
(D) emphasized clinical experience over abstruse theory
(E) stressed the idea of a crisis in the progression of a disease
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6. The term Greek colonization can be misleading because
(A) there was minimal official state involvement in new settlements
(B) women did not participate in establishing new settlements
(C) the Greeks had little cultural impact on the areas they settled
(D) most Greek settlements were economic failures
(E) the Greeks settled in Magna Graecia with much greater frequency
than in western Asia
The Geography Of Ancient Greece
7. One of Pericles’s major reforms was
(A) paying people for serving in public office
(B) expanding the right of citizenship to foreigners
(C) reducing the number of military campaigns against Sparta
(D) increasing the political rights of women
(E) reducing the court role of the Areopagus Council
8. In fifth-century BCE Athenian democracy, who had the right to vote?
(A) Men residing within the polis
(B) Male and female citizens
(C) Male citizens
(D) Landowning men
(E) Only those men who possessed more than 1,000 drachmas
in real property
9. One of the greatest Greek lyric poets, whose work deals with passion
and love for various people and both genders, was
(A) Homer
(B) Lesbos
(C) Sappho
(D) Terence
(E) Praxilla
10. Athens defended its dominance over its allies in the Delian League
by arguing that
(A) its allies were useless
(B) it needed to keep the league strong enough to protect Greece
from the Persians
(C) its contributions to the naval fleet gave it the right to dominate
its allies
(D) the money collected from member tributes was needed for public
building projects
(E) if the league were weak, Sparta would take over Greece
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