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=Study Guide for Unit 1: Ancient Greece  = =(This page will be updated regularly, so keep checking it for changes.) = The following is information that will be on the end of unit test for ancient Greece. The test will be a combination of multiple choice, fill in the blank, true or false, short answer, and essay questions. Make sure you review the quizzes you've already taken, packets that were handed out during the Greeks simulation, wiki assignments that you completed, and notes you took in class.

1. You should review Information from **Ancient Greece: A History** (Academy Phase) packet. Specifically:
 * how the ancient Greeks have influenced our society (The unique legacy section)
 * the origin of the ancient Greeks (The Aegean world section)
 * their love of outside activities (An outdoor life section)
 * why there were separate poleis (The rise of the polis section)
 * how democracy began (Seeds of democracy section)
 * how Athens became a leading polis (The coming of Athens section)
 * how Sparta was different from Athens (Sparta's iron way section)
 * The Persians (The Persian threat section)
 * how Athens became great (Athenian greatness section including the Drama, Philosophy, and Civil War sections)
 * the decline of ancient Greece and the Hellenistic era (Alexander and the Hellenistic Era section)
 * the oracles and their influence (The oracles section)
 * the Greek alphabet (you will be asked to write two of the following letters, capital or small: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, omicron, sigma, omega)
 * what some common Greek quotes mean and who said them

2. You should review Information from the **Assembly Information Sheet** (Assembly Phase) packet. Specifically:
 * what the Assembly is and what it does
 * what the Boule is and what it does
 * the roles of the presiding officer and the herald
 * the people that can and can't be involved in the Assembly or Boule
 * the process of speaking and voting in the Assembly
 * the consequences of bad laws

3. You will be asked to make comparisons of your life with daily life in ancient Greece (wiki assignment 5)

4. You must know who the following gods are and what they are gods of.
 * Zeus
 * Aphrodite
 * Apollo
 * Ares
 * Poseidon
 * Athena

5. Ancient Greece map. You should be able to label the following:
 * Greece
 * the five city-states
 * the Mediterranean Sea
 * the Aegean Sea

6. You should review Information from the **Building A Greek Temple** (Acropolis Phase) packet and __notes you took in class__. Specifically:
 * what the Acropolis is and its uses
 * the types of governments and examples of each one
 * the parts and types of columns

7. You should review your notes from the **Olympics phase**.

8. Vocabulary, people, and events you should know (make sure you know what these people did and what happened in these events): from the sections above (1-7) ||  ||   ||
 * = **Vocabulary** ||= **People** ||= **Events** ||
 * Hellenes (Academy 2:4) || Solon (Academy 2:7) || Battle of Marathon (Academy 2:8) ||
 * Hellas (Academy 2:9) || Pisistratus (Academy 2:7) || Peloponnesian War (Academy 2:9) ||
 * Hellenic (Academy 2:4) || Cleisthenes (Academy 2:7) || Persian Wars (Academy 2:8, 2:13) ||
 * polis (Academy 2:6) || Leonidas (Academy 2:8) || Battle at Thermopylae (Academy 2:8) ||
 * poleis (Academy 2:6) || Pericles (Academy 2:8) ||  ||
 * Ekklesia (Academy 2:7) || Socrates (Academy 2:9, 2:23) ||  ||
 * ostracism (Academy 2:7) || Thucydides (Academy 2:9) ||  ||
 * helots (Academy 2:8) ||  ||   ||
 * Pnyx (Assembly 3:4) ||  ||   ||
 * bema (Assembly 3:4) ||  ||   ||
 * Euge (Assembly 3:4) ||  ||   ||
 * agora (Assembly 3:4) ||  ||   ||
 * chiton (Clothing of Greeks 1:23) ||  ||   ||
 * arete (Student Guide- Greeks 1:43) ||  ||   ||
 * Other words that might appear