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Which of the following was NOT a use of the Greek standing male nude, or kouros, figure?
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device for individual portraiture
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device for individual portraiture
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Which description BEST illustrates the Spartan lifestyle?
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War is the center of life, and one's existence matters only in the ability to do one's duty and serve the state.
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War is the center of life, and one's existence matters only in the ability to do one's duty and serve the state.
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The general model of the city-state may have been borrowed from the
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Minoans.
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Phoenicians.
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While the Homeric epics are tales set in the late Bronze Age, they were likely written in the
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Dark Age.
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Dark Age.
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By the eighth century B.C.E., Greek black-figure vase painters
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experimented with portraying heroic narratives from Greek mythology.
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experimented with portraying heroic narratives from Greek mythology.
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Until the seventh century B.C.E., Athens was able to escape the civil strife prevalent in other states because
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the democratic system already formed by the eighth century B.C.E. had made the people content.
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its relative abundance of arable land and commercial prosperity from grain exports had provided stability.
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All of the following challenged the traditional aristocratic rule in the late Archaic Age EXCEPT
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the rise of a new class of wealthy merchant commoners.
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the development of a unified Greek state.
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In the second half of the sixth century B.C.E., what empire set up puppet regimes in Greek city-
states in Asia Minor and then threatened the mainland city-states?
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Hittite
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Persian
Question 9
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What are ethne (singular, ethnos)?
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Territorial units of the western Peloponnesus featuring villages and small towns
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Territorial units of the western Peloponnesus featuring villages and small towns
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What reformer reorganized the major political units and helped Athens toward democracy in 507 B.C.E.?
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Cleisthenes
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Cleisthenes
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Rulers who came to power, often in opposition to aristocratic authority and without official position, were called
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tyrants.
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