Exercises on the Formation of the Greek Polis

To the greek polis were the city-states of Ancient Greece in which the development of the greek culture. They were responsible for the emergence of Greek civilization and its consolidation in the social, political, civil, religious and philosophical fields.

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Exercises on the formation of the Greek polis

1- In what period did the Greek polis appear?

a) Between the Homeric Period and the Archaic Period.
b) Between the Archaic Period and the Classic Period.
c) Between the Classic Period and the Hellenistic Period.
d) Between the Hellenistic Period and the Homeric Period.

2- What were the most important Greek polis?

a) Sparta and Corinth.
b) Athens and Corinth.
c) Sparta and Thebes.
d) Athens and Sparta.

3- The _____________ made up the dominant social class, owned the largest lands and administered the polis.

a) Perioecum
b) Eupatrids
c) Helots
d) Thetas

4- What was the highest point of the polis, formed by temples and palaces, called?

a) Agora.
b) Archaic.
c) Acropolis.
d) Gene.

5- The economy in the Greek polis was based on:

a) in agriculture and mining.
b) in mining and trade.
c) in agriculture and trade.
d) trade and livestock.

6- (IFG) Ancient Greece did not know a centralized State. It was organized through city-states, called polis. In this regard, mark the incorrect alternative:

a) The polis was a self-determined social and political construction; however, the dispute for hegemony in ancient Greece moved it.
b) In the polis, there was no space for cults, gods and sanctuaries, not even for consulting the oracles prior to decision-making.
c) The polis expressed its own culture and identity, markedly urban, called ethos.
d) In the polis, the legal norm (law), enacted in democratic regimes or granted in aristocratic regimes, was recognized as an act guided by reason and, therefore, human.
e) The social and cultural experience that the ancient Greek lived in the polis allowed the ability to explain the problems of the community within its own scope, fundamentally apart from the gods.

7- (PUC-PR) The Greek Civilization presented cultural unity and political fragmentation. On the subject, mark the correct alternative:

a) When the Aryan or Indo-European tribes of the Achaeans, Aeolians, Ionians and Dorians penetrated Greece, they found the region uninhabited, which facilitated their settlement.
b) The conquest of Greece by Philip II of Macedon predated Roman rule in the region.
c) Athens and Sparta, the main Greek polis, were also founded by the descendants of the Aeolians, the which explains that their economies are the same, based on fishing, crafts and intense trade, including maritime.
d) Both Athens and Sparta established typically democratic governments in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. C., having the first, however, maintained the monarchical form of government.
e) The aggressiveness of the polis, or city-states of Thebes and Corinth, provoked the first wave of Greek colonization, which even populated the islands of the Aegean Sea.

8- Before the emergence of the polis, people gathered in small villages called _____________, where the land was for collective use.

a) gentile communities
b) acropolis
c) now
d) thetas

9- What were the factors that contributed to the emergence of polis?

a) Population increase and retention of trade.
b) Internal wars and expansion of trade.
c) Population increase and expansion of mining.
d) Population increase and trade expansion.

10- Who were the Greek polis controlled by?

a) By feudal lords.
b) By the aristocratic oligarchy.
c) By nobility.
d) By the clergy.

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