Ancient Greece and Rome Test Review

A small independent community in ancient Greece with its own government and laws is called-

• colony

• city-state

• agora

• acropolis

What geographic features influenced the creation of independent city-states in Greece?

• mountains and seas

• plains and forests

• desert and oceans

• glaciers and forests

Ruled by a king who inherited his position from his family

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

the highest class ruled especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

power rests with a small number of citizens, used in Sparta.

Ruling group-controlled military

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

First developed in Athens Greece.  People could participate in the government and all male citizens could vote in the assembly.

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

First used in Rome.  Government in which citizens elected representatives to rule on their behalf

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

 In what war were Athens and its allies (the Delian League) and Sparta and its allies (Peloponnesian League) rivals fighting against each other?

• Persian War

• Peloponnesian War

• The Kalinga War

• The Third Servile War

What was the name given to the time period in Greece where remarkable achievements were made in philosophy, art, and literature?

• The Great Art

• The Golden Age in Greece

• The Renaissance

• The Enlightenment

The Phoenician Alphabet and Greek writing became the basis for what language?

• Urdu

• Spanish

• French

• Latin