Minoan society, the authors claim, was destroyed not by invasions

Question 10 out of 4 pointsMinoan society, the authors claim, was destroyed not by invasions, but with the eruption of a powerful volcano on the Island of Thera.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:incorrect. p.32 It was destroyed, according to the authors, by invasions from the Greek mainland.Question 20 out of 4 pointsAlthough they are traditionally ascribed to someone named Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey were actually the work of performers who composed poetic lines as they chanted.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:incorrect. Although they are traditionally ascribed to someone named Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey were actually the work of performers who composed poetic lines as they chanted.Question 30 out of 4 pointsIn Greece, sexual behavior was more about a person’s power relationship in society, with the socially more powerful citizens tending to sexually exploit the relatively lower-ranking members of society.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:incorrect. p.42 In Greece, sexual behavior was more about a person’s power relationship in society, with the socially more powerful citizens tending to sexually exploit the relatively lower-ranking members of society.Question 44 out of 4 pointsThe Greek myths were explanations of the origins of the natural world around them and also served to support Greek social, political and religious traditions.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 54 out of 4 pointsIn the eighth century B.C.E., Greek polis experienced a disastrous fall in population, leading to the near extinction of some of the early states.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 60 out of 4 pointsSparta’s basic military advantage was that it could both control a large-sized empire in the Aegean while at the same time insure that the helots at home were kept by terror and violence from revolting.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:incorrect. p.50 Sparta had to make a choice, and depended upon its many alliances, never wanting to deploy warriors away from their Peloponnese home any more than was necessary.Question 74 out of 4 pointsDuring the period called the Greek Dark Ages, iron began replacing bronze as the most common metal for tools and weapons.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 84 out of 4 pointsEquality of life was shared as much by Spartans as Athenians with a general sense of democratic equality being shared by the inhabitants of both polis.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 90 out of 4 pointsThroughout its history, Athenian society was always hampered socially because it was never based upon the existence of a free peasantry.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:incorrect. p. 51 Athenian society was based upon the existence of a free peasantry.Question 100 out of 4 pointsThe geography of ancient Greece favored the development of small agricultural societies, but also drove the Greeks to reach out to other areas under pressure for survival.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:incorrect. p.31 The geography of ancient Greece favored the development of small agricultural societies, but also drove the Greeks to reach out to other areas under pressure for survival.Question 114 out of 4 pointsThe history of Corinth suggests that tyrants were sometimes extremely popular and produced many positive results, but that they could also be cruel and violent.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 124 out of 4 pointsIn Sparta, the krypteia were a band of youths who practiced state terrorism, killing helots as a rite of passage into adult citizenship.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 134 out of 4 pointsThere is ample evidence to deduce that the powerful warrior civilization of the Mycenaeans ruled all of the area of Greece in the time before the Greek Dark Ages.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 140 out of 4 pointsIn contrast to the alphabet that the Greeks borrowed from the Phoenicians, the central purpose of Mycenaean writing was administrative record-keeping.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:incorrect. In contrast to the alphabet that the Greeks borrowed from the Phoenicians, the central purpose of Mycenaean writing was administrative record-keeping.Question 154 out of 4 pointsAround 1200 B.C.E., a general collapse of the Greek city states occurred due to their economic and social instability as well as becoming affected by the larger disruptions of commerce and security in the Mediterranean because of the fall of the Hittites and troubles in Egypt.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 164 out of 4 pointsAccording to the authors of your textbook, bisexuality was the norm in Greek society.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 174 out of 4 pointsGreeks generally included women in important public roles and in the central life of the community.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:correct. Greeks generally excluded women from important public roles and from the central life of the community.Question 184 out of 4 pointsAthens was by far the largest polis in the Greek world.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 194 out of 4 pointsThe authors of your text claim that the democratization of Greek political life was a gradual effect of the democratization of war.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 204 out of 4 pointsGreek sculpture emphasized of the male subject of the work which became noted for its rigid imitation of Egyptian forms, though it failed in the sense that it tended to lack originality and individual expression.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:correct. Greek sculpture highlighted the importance of the creator of the work which became noted for its originality and individuality.Question 210 out of 4 pointsThe term ‘tyrant’ originally meant a conquering foreign ruler who achieved power by using foreign hoplite armies to invade a polis and set up an unpopular regime based upon extremely violent methods. The word ‘Tyrant’ was never used in the same sense as ‘king’ as kingship implied legitimacy.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:incorrect. p.41 The term ‘tyrant’ originally meant the same as the word ‘king’ and referred to those who achieved power often through their popularity with the hoplite armies.Question 224 out of 4 pointsBetween 1200 until 800 B.C.E. the Aegean world experienced a period of great literary, philosophical and scientific enlightenment.Selected Answer:FalseCorrect Answer:FalseResponse Feedback:correct. p. 36 Between 1200 until 800 B.C.E. the Aegean world experienced a period of called the Greek Dark Ages.Question 234 out of 4 pointsOne major reason for the invasion of Greece by the Persian Empire in the sixth century B.C.E. was the rebellion of many small Greek communities after the spread of democracy prompted them to overthrow and expell their Persian-appointed tyrants.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:True.Question 244 out of 4 pointsAll things considered, Greek gods pretty much just reflected the values and weaknesses of the Greeks themselves, and like literacy and government, were generally accessible to all citizens and not the exclusive domain of the secretive priesthood of some religious cult.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correctQuestion 254 out of 4 pointsThe basic result of the reforms of Cleisthenes was the destruction of older social and political patterns and the integration of people from different backgrounds who then had to work together and find common solutions.Selected Answer:TrueCorrect Answer:TrueResponse Feedback:correct