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CLA/HIS 2102: Quiz 1: Jan. 26
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Answers to the quiz questions: Find the light-blue arrow.
Q.1 Why did ancient Mediterranean seafarers usually
not
go to sea during
winter?
In winter on the Mediterranean, every single day brings a deadly storm.
Mediterranean sailors found winters at sea to be just too cold.
Mediterranean harbours normally were closed in winter.
Winter seas often bring bad visibility
—
from rain, fog, short daylight
—
where visibility
was essential for ancient navigation.
Winter at sea would accelerate the rot of ancient ships' wood.
Q.2 Which of one of the following ancient Greek authors is
NOT
a major source
for our textbook ("Buckley")?
Plutarch
Herodotus
Aristotle
Thucydides
Diodorus Siculus
Aeschylus
Q.3 Even at its economic height in the 400s B.C., Athens relied on one major
import-item. What was it?
olive oil
silver
Grain
Tin
Slaves
timber for ship building
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Q.4 Natural limestone in the ground has what bad effect in Greece?
Limestone caves in ancient times were the haunts of bandits and even lions.
It poisons the soil with calcium.
It creates rocks in the soil, reducing the fertility.
Greece suffers a vertical loss of rainwater from the ground's surface, due to the
porous rock.
Q.5 Which one of the following statements is
NOT
true about the Battle of
Hysiae in 669 B.C.?
Modern scholars associate Argos' superior and innovative army of 669 B.C. with a
leader (or "tyrant") at Argos named Pheidon.
Sparta's defeat at Hysiae marked the end of Sparta's empire-and-greatness in Greece.
At Hysiae, the army of Argos beat the army of Sparta.
At Hysiae, the army of Argos was using hoplite warfare.
Hysiae was a village near Argos. This fact tells us that Sparta was the invader in the
campaign, and Argos was defending its own territory.
Hysiae probably was the first battle in which hoplites fought.
Q.6 Which one of the following statements is
NOT
true about Greek overseas
colonizing, 700s to 500s B.C.?
Overseas colonizing was one response to Greece's land shortage and food shortage.
Among the most successful of all Greek colonies was Syracuse, in Sicily, founded
from Corinth.
The god of colonizing was Apollo, who granted permission for new colonies' creation
through his oracle at Delphi.
Greek colonies existed on the River Don estuary in what is now Russia, and on what
is now the French Riviera.
Colonizing was secondarily intended to develop overseas trade connections.
Routinely, various Greek colonies would rise in revolt against the oppressive rule of
their home-cities.
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Q.7 Which one of the following statements is
NOT
true about the early Greek
city-state (
polis
), circa 700 B.C.?
About 20 percent of the citizen population of the polis was an aristocracy, whose
wealth came from land ownership and who claimed descent from the heroes of Greek
mythology.
The citizens of the polis included the free-born poor, including peasants of the
countryside. Periodically, the citizens gathered at a political assembly, called
an
ekklesia
or ecclesia.
Normally, the polis relied on possession of a farming plain for growing its food. The
countryside and villages were counted as part of the polis.
Greece's division into numerous city-states was partly a consequence of Greece's
mountain terrain.
The polis was a mini-nation unto itself, with its own army, government, and laws. If
you travelled from your polis to the next one over, you would be more-or-less in a
foreign country.
Normally, the polis was ruled by a king
—
as reflected in the kings in Greek
mythology and the kings at real-life Sparta.
Q.8 Which one of the following people was an early champion of Athenian
democracy?
Lycurgus
Athena
Solon
Thucydides
Alexander the Great
Cypselus
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Q.9 Which of the following statements is
NOT
true regarding the three major
ancient Greek ethnic-dialect groups?
The Ionians were stereotyped as being inferior land soldiers (hoplites) but being good
at sailing and fighting at sea.
The Dorian stereotype of being militaristic and non-intellectual was typified by the
city-state Sparta.
One thing the Aeolians were known for was a strong tradition of poetry, as
personified by the famous poet Sappho, of the Aeolian island of Lesbos.
It was Ionian Greeks who would invent democracy and philosophy, and would create
the Greek alphabet.
The name "Dorians",
Doreioi
, may be related to the ancient Greek word
doru
,
meaning "spear".
Among the most dynamic of the Ionian Greeks were (i) the Phoenicians and (ii) the
Athenians, both known for their seafaring and their writings.
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