Chapter 7 The Ancient Greeks

The Greeks developed the modern concept of citizenship.

• True
• False

Sparta developed coins to make trading easier.

• True
• False

Sparta developed a military culture, and beginning at age seven, boys trained in military skills.

• True
• False

The Persian Empire had a full-time professional army; Athens had a volunteer army.

• True
• False

The Persians defeated the Greeks at Marathon.

• True
• False

Athens had many enslaved people who were captured during battle and became prisoners of Athens.

• True
• False

Sparta defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.

• True
• False

Under the Greek definition of citizen, who qualified for citizenship?

• free, native-born men who owned land
• any man, whether he owned land or not
• wealthy men or women who owned slaves and land
• foreign-born or native-born men, who may or may not have been landowners

In what way did a boy’s life in Athens differ from a boy’s life in Sparta?

• Athenian boys went to school; Spartan boys served in the military.
• Athenian boys studied combat; Spartan boys played sports.
• Athenian boys lived in barracks; Spartan boys lived at home.
• Athenian boys became citizens at 30; Spartan boys became citizens at 18.

At the battle between Greeks and Persians at Thermopylae, ______.

• the Spartans and Athenians defeated the Persians
• the Persians won, although the Athenians fought until the end
• Spartans fought until the end, but the Persians won
• the Persians won the battle easily