Study Guide
Chapter 6 World History
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Parthenon
philosopher
Democritus
Pythagoras
hubris
Aristophanes
phalanx
Demosthenes
Epicurus
Eratosthenes
1. How did Greek art broke away from Egyptian influence?
2. Some Greek sculptors made their work more lifelike by doing what?
3. Greek art expressed its belief in what?
4. Early philosophers were called cosmologists because they did what?
5. Socrates believed that students should do what?
6. Plato believed in a government ruled by an aristocracy, or what?
7. Explain Aristotle beliefs
8. Hippocrates’s work sums up Greek science because it did what?
9. Explain Thucydides beliefs
10. What did Philip’s admiration of Greek ways do?
11. What did Alexander desired to accomplish?
12. Hellenism is a blend of what?
13. The spread of Hellenistic culture did what?
14. Hellenistic doctors increased their knowledge by doing what?
15. The uneven structure of the Parthenon expresses the Greeks belief in what?
16. Greek art showed an admiration for what?
17. What kinds of questions did Philosophers ask?
18. Plato’s dialogues contained his own ideas, as well as what other ideas?
19. Explain Plato’s belief in the soul and the body.
20. What did Greek scientists believe about that natural laws?
21. Who was Aristophanes? What is he known for?
22. What did the Speeches by Demosthenes accomplish?
23. What was Alexander’s success based on?
24. What was Alexander’s aim when it came the World?
25. What did the spread of Hellenistic culture demonstrates?
26. What did the Ruler-worship provided people with?
27. What did Stoics, like Zeno, believe?
28. Hellenistic science tended to focus more what.
29. What do Hellenistic geographers believed about the world?
30. The beautiful buildings of Athens showed the ____________________ people felt in their city.
31. Scenes of everyday life and the art of Praxiteles show a movement toward ____________________ in Greek art.
32. The Socratic Method used ____________________ to teach.
33. ____________________ believed that perfection existed in theory but not reality.
34. Aristotle collected as many facts as he could and then ____________________ them.
35. Hippocrates taught that disease was the result of ____________________.
36. _________________________ was greatly influenced by his time in Greek prison.
37. Alexander’s main goal was to _________________________.
38. Hellenism gave greater freedom to ____________________.
39. ____________________ philosophy influenced Roman and Christian thinking.
40. Greeks admired the perfect proportions of the
41. What does this admiration tell us about Greek ideas of beauty?
42. Phidias and Praxiteles were great Greek
43. How did their styles differ?
44. What did Greek philosophers trie to accomplish?
45. What did most philosophers believe?
46. The Socratic Method was based on
47. Why did public officials dislike Socrates?
48. Socrates’s ideas were passed on through the work of
49. How did Plato’s work capture Socrates’s methods?
50. Plato’s idea of a perfect society is described in.
51. Who were the rulers in Plato’s perfect society? Why?
52. Philip II of Macedon’s army based their attacks around the use of
53. Why else was Philip able to defeat the Greeks?
54. Alexander’s goal was to
55. Why did Alexander fail?
56. Alexander managed his empire efficiently by
57. How did Alexander’s conquests influence world culture?
58. What did the Skeptics teach?
59. Why did many new religions and philosophies appear during the Hellenistic Age?
60. What was the best place to find gold during the Hellenistic era?
61. Which country was at the center of the slave trade?
62. What might a trader find on the way from Alexandria to India?
63. Besides silk, what items were available along the Silk Road to China?
64. Which city would be the best place to be a trader? Explain.
65. What values did the Greeks express in their art and architecture?
66. What was Plato’s “Theory of Forms”?
67. What were Aristotle’s views about the forms of government?
68. How was Euripides’s work different from that of Sophocles and Aeschylus?
69. Why was Alexander so well-prepared to be a great leader?
70. Discuss the way in which Greek art and science reflected Greek values and philosophies.
71. Analyze the pros and cons of Plato’s ideal government.
72. Why did Demosthenes fail? Was this good or bad? Explain.
73. How did Aristotle influence Alexander?
74. Compare and contrast the philosophies of the Hellenistic era.