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Quiz 5th Century BC History

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History quiz on the 5th Century BC

 

Hard QUIZ 24 QUESTIONS
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Question 1 / 24

The four great playwrights of the 5th Century BC are

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Question 2 / 24

The "Father of Tragedy" is___________.

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Question 3 / 24

Aristophanes was called "The Father of__________.

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Question 4 / 24

A war between the Greeks and the _________ began in 499 BC and lasted about 20 years

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Question 5 / 24

Pericles introduces _____________ for all Athenian citizens allowing them to vote and participate in the administration of the state.

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Question 6 / 24

Herodotus is known as the "Father of ____________. He wrote the account of the Greco-Persian wars from the vantage point in Asia Minor.

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Question 7 / 24

Pythagoras is credited with the mathematical theorem called____________.

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Question 8 / 24

The followers of ___________ maintained that the earth rotates on an axis and moves in an orbit.

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Question 9 / 24

Democritas declared that matter is composed of indivisible and indestructible ________.

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Question 10 / 24

The mystical texts of the ___________ of Daoism and the ___________ of Hinduism were written down during the 5th Century BC.

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Question 11 / 24

Siddartha Gautama left home to become a wandering ascetic. After a night of meditation he is 'enlightened' and becomes___________.

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Question 12 / 24

The Athenians built the _____________, a temple to Athena.

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Question 13 / 24

Hippocrates founded a school of ___________ on the Greek island of Kos.

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Question 14 / 24

The three classical styles of columns in Greek architecture are ___________, ________, and ____________

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Question 15 / 24

Phidias sculpted a huge stature of the goddess ___________ to be the central feature of the Parthenon.

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Question 16 / 24

Myron sculpts ________________, an outstanding example of the Greek ability to suggest movement.

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Question 17 / 24

Phidias created a massive statue of ____________ covered in gold and ivory, to stand in the temple at Olympia.

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Question 18 / 24

When the Oracle at Delphi said that there was no-one wiser than Socrates, Socrates believed ______________.

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Question 19 / 24

A series of questions that are asked to draw out individual answers and to encourage insight is called the _________________.

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Question 20 / 24

Socrates believed the best way for people to live was to focus on_____________.

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Question 21 / 24

Socrates criticized Democracy. He believed that the _______________ was the only type of person suitable to govern others.

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Question 22 / 24

Hippocrates was credited with coining the _________________ still in use today by medical professionals.

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Question 23 / 24

Hippocrates is credited to being the first person to believe that diseases were caused _________________.

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Question 24 / 24

The earliest surviving masterpiece of Greek art by Kritios is a

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