WH Book 1 Ancient Civ Ch 10 Vocab Quiz

A ___________________ is a military tactic of surrounding a city with troops

• overthrowing

• coup

• siege

• guerilla warfar

A ________________ is an almost unstoppable battle formation

• pharynx

• larynx

• thorax

• phalanx

Which of the following are true about Alexander the Great?

• He invaded and freed Persian-controlled Anatolia

• He was crowned a pharaoh in Egypt

• He took control of the whole Persian Empire

• He carved out an empire stretching for 3000 miles

• He died from a fever and died at the age of 32

Relating to or dominated by Greek culture

• Hellenistic

• cosmopolitan

• Alexandrian

• Athenian

_______________ refers to a worldly atmosphere

• metropolitan

• political

• euclidean

• cosmopolitan

This Greek philosopher who was interested in the study of right and wrong

• Pericles

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

Socrates was this philosopher's teacher. He believed that this world was a shadow of another one.

• Aesop

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Alexander the Great

This Greek writer was famous for writing fables and short stories. He was also a slave.

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Aesop

• Plato

Plato was this philosopher's teacher who became Alexander the Great's tutor.

• Aesop

• Aristotle

• Homer

• Socrates

This form of government is when citizens elective officials to vote and enact policies on their behalf

• general democracy

• direct democracy

• skilled democracy

• representative democracy