1)The two dominant Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean Sea region were the ___ and ___

1)The two dominant Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean Sea region were the ___ and ___.

1. What best describes Minoan culture?
2. What is most often associated with the famous “bull-leaping” fresco from the Minoan palace at Knossos?
3. ______ B appears to be an early form of Greek used for bureaucratic and administrative purpose.
4. The Minoan civilization was eventually brought to an end when Crete was absorbed by the _____?
5. Who were the opponents in the ten year long war that was the basis for the Iliad and the Odyssey—the two great epic poems of the ancient Greeks?
6. How can Mycenaean citadels on mainland Greece best be characterized?
7. What does the absence of productive walls around the palace at Knossos suggest about Minoan life?
8. Which of the following have scholars concluded about Homer in relation to the Iliad and the Odyssey?
9. What enrages Achilles and promotes his vengeance in the Trojan War?
10. What did Achilles do to emerge victorious and bring honor to his fellow Achaeans?
11. Which gods were viewed as the ruling deities by the ancient Greeks?
12. What were the gods in the Greek pantheon?
13. The ancient Greeks traced their origins to the fury of _____, who sent a flood to destroy humans because he was angered by their evil.
14. How did the ancient Greeks view their gods?
15. Which of the following relate to the ancient Greek shrine of Apollo?
16. How did the Greek gods differ from the Hebrew god?
17. Which of the following were common characteristics of the Greek city-states?
18. What was the key to the lasting Greek victory over the Persians in the Greek-Persian Wars of 750-480 B.C.E?
19. The first known historian, and the person known as the “father of history” was the Greek named ____?
20. What is essential to the historical method as established by Herodotus?
21. Before they were menaced by Persian aggression, how did the Greek city-states relate to each other?
22. The events of the Greek-Persian war in order:
23. After the Greek won the Persian War, the city-state of _____ became both politically and commercially dominant.
24. In its early history, Athens was a(n) ____, meaning that an elite minority controlled the government.
25. What were the characteristics of Athenian democracy?
26. What was fundamental to Athenian democracy with regard to voting?
27. What can be said of the Greek polls of Sparta?
28. Who was considered the leading proponent of the Athenian democracy?
29. What was part of the Athenian foreign policy implemented by the Pericles?
30. What describes Thucydides?
31. What were characteristics of the Olympic Games?
32. The Greek ___ games promoted both individual excellence and communal pride.
33. Who is the statesman credited with placing Athens on the path towards democracy?
34. The democracy practiced in the United States still follows the model of Athenian democracy.            
35. What contribution did Pericles make to Athens?
36. Our knowledge of the Peloponnesian Wars is largely based on the writings which Greek historian?
37. Who competed in the original Greek Olympic Games?
38. The ancient Greeks were the first masters in the art of ____, the literary genre that tells a story through the limitation of action.
39. 2 Principle forms of Greek drama popular during the Golden Age in Athens.
40. Characteristics of the early Greek dramas.
41. The stories presented in Greek tragedy were generally familiar to the average Greek theater-goer.
42. Greek tragedy gave expression to the worst kinds of human experience, while ____ was rooted in incongruities and the unexpected.
43. Who was the author of the Greek drama Antigone?
44. In the Greek play ____, Sophocles works to reconcile human passions, the will of the gods, and the sovereignty of the citizenry.
45. In the drama Antigone, what is a key source of the tragedy?
46. In the literary genre of tragedy, the protagonist emerges as a tragic hero because of the multiple catastrophes he must face.
47. In Aristoteles’s view, what was the function of literary tragedy?
48. In ancient Greek theaters, the circular “dancing space” in front of the stage is known as the
49. In the literary genre of tragedy, what makes the protagonist a tragic hero?
50. Early Greek philosophers of the sixth century BCE
51. What questions did the earliest Greek philosophers ask?
52. The Greek man named ___ was the founding father of mathematics.
53. What is associated with Hippocrates?
54. What was the main concern of the Greek humanist philosophers?
55. The first Greek philosophers were called the ____?
56. The foremost philosopher of Athens was ____, who vigorously opposed the views of the Sophists, especially their view that truth and justice were relative concept.
57. Which questioning method did Socrates use?
58. What is associated with inductive reasoning as modeled by Socrates?
59. What were the circumstances of Socrates death?
60. After he was found guilty, Socrates was sentenced to death by drinking ____?
61. In the mind of Socrates, in what way should citizens express their loyalty to the polis?
62. The teaching of Socrates inspired the pupil ____, who later found the first school of philosophy, called the Academy.
63. In the ____, Plato’s most famous treatise, he explored the meaning of justice and the nature of a just society.
64. What was the concern of the Greek naturalist philosophers?
65. What did Sophists argue?
66. Plato referred to the higher reality of eternal truths as ____, which were distinct from transient sensory experience.
67. In the Republic, Plato uses a literacy device known as ____, by which the literal text can be interpreted to revel a figurative or “hidden” meaning
68. Platonic idealism is considered ____ because it draws a distinction between the worlds of the mind and body.
69. Plato’s Theory of Forms has links with the modern scientific field of ____ and may also have been influenced by Asian religious thought.
70. What are features of Plato’s Republic?
71. In Plato’s view, who should govern?
72. A student of Plato, ____ founded a school in Athens known as the Lyceum.
73. What are the qualities of Aristotle’s empirical method?
74. A ____ is a deductive scheme, formulated by Aristotle that requires an argument to be divided into individual terms, as well as a method of reasoning.
75. What is the focus of the brand of philosophy developed by Aristotle and referred to as ethics?
76. Aristotle steered people away from extreme behavior when he articulated his principle of the ____ Mean.
77. What made Aristotle question the viability of democracy?
78. The Greek philosophers who made the transition from exploring matter to exploring the mind established the ____ direction of Greek philosophy.
79. What is associate with the Greek Sophists?