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The famous Indian ruler who sent Buddhist missionaries to Greek rulers was


A) Akbar.
B) Asoka.
C) Chandragupta.
D) Shiva.
E) Bodhisattva.

F) None of the above
G) C) and D)

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Hellenistic education as embodied in the gymnasium


A) was opposed by Hellenistic rulers who saw education as a threat to their power.
B) was open to all classes of society except slaves.
C) made no provision for physical education.
D) was focused exclusively upon vocational training.
E) closely and widely followed classical Greek ideas about proper education.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

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The Hellenistic states in the centuries after Alexander the Great


A) became despotic monarchies.
B) rarely fought amongst themselves.
C) included large numbers of non-Greeks in leadership positions.
D) showed little innovation in their armies and military institutions.
E) all disappeared by the second century B.C.E.

F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

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Isocrates


A) condemned Philip II for his aggression against the Greek city states.
B) agreed with Demosthenes that Alexander would be an improvement over Philip II.
C) hoped that Philip would unite the Greek world in a campaign against Persia.
D) was put to death for criticizing the gods.
E) supported Alexander of Macedonia in his struggle against his father, Philip.

F) B) and E)
G) All of the above

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The Greek god of healing, thought responsible for miraculous cures in the Hellenistic period, was


A) Hippocrates.
B) Asclepius.
C) Herophilus.
D) Erasistratus.
E) Euclid.

F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

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The widespread popularity of Stoicism and Epicureanism


A) demonstrated the renewed association of the happiness of individuals with the life of the polis.
B) coincided with a growth of traditional Greek religious practices.
C) suggested a new openness to thoughts of universality in the cosmopolitan Hellenistic states.
D) amounted to proof of a growing homogenization of Greek thought.
E) All of these are correct.

F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

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In his Philippics, Demosthenes


A) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Greek freedom.
B) foresaw a revival of Athenian culture under the leadership of Philip II.
C) glorified the Macedonian armies as the saviors of Greece.
D) praised Philip II for freeing the Ionian cities.
E) portrayed Philip II as a looming threat to Persia.

F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Outside of Judea, the vast majority of Diaspora Jews completely assimilated themselves into Hellenistic society, becoming participating citizens in the various urban activities.

A) True
B) False

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After the Battle of Chaeronea (338 B.C.E.), the Greek city-states were required to take an oath of loyalty to Philip of Macedonia.

A) True
B) False

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Which of the following statements concerning the emergence of the Macedonians is CORRECT?


A) The early Macedonians were greatly admired by the Greeks for their cultural achievements.
B) The Macedonians were probably not Greek.
C) The Macedonians organized themselves in city-states like their southern Greek neighbors.
D) The Greeks prohibited them from participating in the Olympic Games.
E) Macedonia emerged as an important kingdom during the Greek Archaic Age.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

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Which class of women achieved the most notable gains during the Hellenistic period?


A) lower class
B) middle class
C) upper class
D) slaves
E) working class

F) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

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The Greek general who took Egypt after Alexander's death and converted it into the longest-lasting Hellenistic kingdom was


A) Ptolemy.
B) Brassius.
C) Seleucis.
D) Antigonis.
E) Bucephalus.

F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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How did Greek religion change during the Hellenistic period?


A) It changed to various kinds of emperor worship.
B) Fertility gods took the place of the classical Greek gods.
C) The Greeks became very receptive to the eastern religious mystery cults.
D) The Greeks reverted back to a form of animism.
E) It was deeply influenced by Buddhism, brought to the west by Alexander and his successors.

F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

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The most famous scientist of his era, Archimedes of Syracuse, was responsible for all of the following EXCEPT


A) uniting the disciplines of science and philosophy.
B) designing military devices to thwart siege attackers.
C) creating the science of hydrostatics.
D) establishing the value of the mathematical constant pi.
E) work on the geometry of spheres and cylinders.

F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

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Historians relying on the same source material provide vastly different pictures of Alexander the Great in their assessments of his life and legacy.

A) True
B) False

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The Antigonid kingdom was located in


A) Palestine.
B) Egypt.
C) Macedonia.
D) Syria and Mesopotamia.
E) India.

F) C) and E)
G) B) and D)

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At the Battle of Gaugamela,


A) Alexander's men heavily outnumbered the Persian forces.
B) Alexander broke through the center of the Persian line with his heavy cavalry, followed by the infantry.
C) the Persians were unable to use their war chariots because the narrow battlefield limited their maneuverability.
D) Persian king Darius was killed at the end of the battle.
E) Alexander was forced to retreat back to Susa after his defeat.

F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Alexander the Great's conquests in Asia occurred despite


A) his lack of military expertise prior to his father's assassination.
B) the Persian king Darius III's refusal to make any peace settlements and resort to guerilla warfare.
C) the lack of a strong cavalry and inability to capture Egypt.
D) his eventual difficulties in convincing his troops to fight so far from home.
E) violent opposition back in Greece by most of the city-states.

F) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

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The mystery cults and religions of the Hellenistic world


A) were completely foreign and thus unacceptable to the Greeks.
B) helped pave the way for the success of Christianity.
C) never achieved widespread popularity due to their inability to fulfill people's spiritual needs.
D) lacked an emotional initiation experience, unlike the Greek civic cults.
E) became the state religions of the various Hellenistic kingdoms.

F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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The Hellenistic era describes an age that saw


A) the extension and imitation of Greek culture throughout the ancient Near East.
B) the absence of autocratic power for nearly three centuries.
C) the disappearance of a Greek cultural legacy until Roman times.
D) Alexander's successors maintain a united empire until Roman times.
E) the disappearance of Greek religious beliefs and practices.

F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

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