Lesson 3-4

What type of leader was Pericles?

• Skillful Politician

• Inspiring speaker

• Tyrant

• Respected general

What type of government does Pericles create?

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Aristocracy

• Direct Democracy

Who resented Athenians power?

• Sparta and other cities

• Pericles

• Delian League

Pericles builds what to honor the goddess Athena?

• Parthenon

• Sculptors

Sculptors create graceful, strong, perfectly formed figures.

• True

• False

What marks the beginning of the Peloponnesian War?

• Athens declares war on Sparta

• Pericles declares war on Athens

• Sparta declares war on Athens

Who believed the "unexamined life is not worth living"

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

Who wrote The Republic and was a student of Socrates?

• Plato

• Alexander the Great

• Aristotle

What was an important feature of Athenian democracy under Pericles?

• It decreased the requirements for citizenship.

• It increased the number of paid public officials.

• It introduced the concept of elected representatives.

• It unified the executive and legislative branches of government.

What caused the decline of Athens's golden age?

• corruption

• earthquakes

• military defeat

• volcanic eruptions