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Chapter Four: The Greek World Expands, 400 – 150 B.C.E.
1.
Who was the military genius from Thebes that created the elite unit of soldiers called the Sacred Band and was successful in defeating the Spartans in 371 B.C.E. at Leuctra? 2.
During the fourth century in Greece, who was that era’s most famous sculptor and was regarded as the first artist to create full-size female nudes?
3.
Who was the student of Socrates that dedicated his life to transmitting Socrates’ legacy through the writing of dialogues on philosophical subjects?
4.
What famous work by Plato argues that social harmony is more important than individual liberty or equality? 5.
Who was the student of Plato whose philosophy was based on the rational analysis of the material world? 6.
What term describes the form of reasoning in which certain premises inevitably lead to a valid conclusion? 7.
Who was the Macedonian king that consolidated the southern Balkans and the Greek city-states under Macedonian domination?
8.
Who was the Macedonian king whose conquests of the Persian Empire and Egypt created a new, Hellenistic world?
9.
Who was the Great King of Persia that fought Alexander the Great at Issus in 333 B.C.E.?
10.
What battle in 326 B.C.E. was the last major battle of Alexander the Great’s career?
11.
What Persian ritual performance did Alexander the Great try to adopt that fueled a mutiny among the Macedonians?
12.
What term describes the various Western civilizations of antiquity that were loosely united by a shared Greek language and culture?
13.
Of the three successor states after Alexander the Great’s death, which state was the most stable and was ruled by Alexander’s former general Ptolemy?
14.
Who became ruler of Alexander’s Asian lands and struggled to unify a disparate realm?
15.
What were the names of the two alliances among Greek poleis formed during the Hellenistic period in opposition to the Antigonids of Macedonia?
16.
Be able to list three countries that imported their goods into the port of Alexandria, Egypt.
17.
How many cities did Alexander the Great found as imperial outposts?
18.
During the Hellenistic period, what was the most common occupation?
19.
Which system of philosophy from the Hellenistic world believed that the cosmos is an ordered whole
in which all contradictions are resolved for ultimate good? This type of philosophy emphasized discipline, duty, and tolerance.
20.
Which system of philosophy from the Hellenistic world believed that there is no ultimate purpose in the workings of the universe and these workings are entirely random? This type of philosophy emphasized pleasure and happiness. 21.
Which system of philosophy from the Hellenistic world believed that all knowledge is based on sense
perception and is limited and relative? 22.
What was the name of the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures that was transcribed by seventy scribes?
23.
Who was the Greek astronomer that deduced that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun?
24.
Who was the most influential Hellenistic mathematician that wrote Elements of Geography
?
25.
From the field of geography, who accurately calculated the circumference of the earth and developed a system of latitude and longitude?
26.
Who discovered the law of floating bodies plus established the principles of the lever, the pulley, and
the screw? 27.
What form of art was the most influential of all Hellenistic arts? 28.
What culture characteristic of the Hellenistic world challenged and transformed the more narrow worldview of the Greek polis?
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