Test Review: Ch. 8 Ancient Greece~

1. Which group of ancient Greek women had greater freedom?

• Slave women
• Athenian women
• Spartan women

2. Government structure of Sparta where political power is held by a small group of people.

• Direct Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Socialism

3. How did the aristocracy get its power?

• Birth
• Religion
• War

4. What control did the ephors have over the city-state of ancient Sparta?

• They made and approved all laws
• They could mint coins
• They could remove kings that broke the law.

5. Battle in which the Athenians used trickery to defeat the Persians during the first Persian War. A solider ran around 25 miles back to Athens to announce victory.

• Plataea
• Salamis
• Marathon

The following primary source account and choose the best answer. "Every man make up his mind to fight and move on his enemy! Strong as I am, it's hard for me to face so many men and fight with all at once...and yet I will!" -Homer, The Iliad What value was Homer portraying in this selection that helped shape Greek identify?

• Bravery
• Fairness
• Sportsmanship

7. Ancient Greece was made up of many city-states. Each city-state was ____________________.

• Troy
• An independent state
• An open area in a polis

8. What modern term was taken from the Greek idea of having governing ideas in a polis?

• Democracy
• Politics
• City Council

9. Under democracy, who help power over the government?

• A single ruler
• A phalanx
• Adult free male citizens

10. Where did Spartan boys live?

• In barracks
• With neighboring families
• With Helots