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	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. is the name coined by modern scholars to describe the civilization that arose out of Crete (and that takes its name from the legendary king of Crete), which was the site of the early Bronze Age settlements.

	Which of the following is one way in which the Mycenaeans differed from the Minoans?   The two differed very little. Mycenaeans were more dependent on trade. Mycenaeans were more interested in art and literature. Mycenaeans were more warlike.

	The overthrow of Mycenaean palace culture in the wake of the Dorian invasian led to a population explosion.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. For a description of society in the Greek "Dark Ages," the best source is .

	The Homeric epics were   The Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad and the Golden Fleece. Works and Days and the Theogony. Oedipus Rex and the Odyssey.

	Which qualities would a Homeric hero prize most dearly?   individual skill, courage, and excellence strength, teamwork, and artistic ability wealth, love of country, and the good life charity, individual skill, and speaking ability

	Polis is most accurately translated as "city-state."    True  False

	The Greeks held open-air assemblies in a place called the   Acropolis. arete. tholos. agora.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Greek was easier to learn than any system that had come before, so more people became literate.

	Hoplite phalanx battles were usually short, and they resulted in decisive victories.    True  False

	The rise of the hoplite phalanx created   class tensions that later resulted in civil war. a demand for an all-powerful tyrant. a strong oligarchic state in Athens. a bond between the aristocrats and the peasants.

	The Greek colonization movement around 750 B.C.E. occurred primarily because of   a desire to trade and make money. overpopulation of Greek lands. fear of the Dorian invasion. a need to escape from internal disputes between city-states.

	Colonization helped foster Panhellenic spirit.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Colonization helped foster the development of agricultural export crops, especially the and the wine grape.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A(n) was a monarch who had gained power in an unorthodox or unconstitutional way and who exercised a strong one-man rule that might well be beneficent and popular.

	Choose the sequence that places historical developments in the correct chronological order.   Greek Dark Ages, Minoan period, Age of Colonization Age of Colonization, Greek Dark Ages, Minoan period Minoan period, Age of Colonization, Greek Dark Ages Minoan period, Greek Dark Ages, Age of Colonization

	Spartan boys normally began their military training at the age of 7.    True  False

	Spartan women   had full voting rights. lived more constrained lives than other Greek women. were indoctrinated to serve Sparta. enjoyed privacy and luxury in their home lives.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Sparta became the leader of an alliance that included every Peloponnesian state except Argos; modern scholars have named this alliance the Peloponnesian .

	An important factor in the political life of Athens appears to have been the rivalry between   priests. tyrants. nobles. generals.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Clisthenes may be thought of as the father of Athenian .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. A literary work called Works and Days by gives some idea of the life of a small farmer.

	Like the Israelites, the Greeks were monotheistic.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The father of the gods, , was worshiped at Olympus and was a source of human justice.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. was the god of nature and fertility, the grapevine, drunkenness, and sexual abandon.

	The Persian victory at Marathon is seen by historians as a key event in the development of later Greek culture.    True  False

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