Chapter 03 True/False Quiz

. The polis consists of a city and its surrounding territory.

. An ethnos was a demos unified by a central government.

. As the new city-states developed, the office of basileus gave way to a collective, aristocratic government.

. In an oligarchy, family members could not inherit political authority.

. Both men and women could sit in the boule.

. Women played a leading part in Greek religion.

. The Greek aristocracy maintained its wealth by controlling the land.

. Like the Iliad and the Odyssey, Hesiod's Works and Days concentrates on the adventures of the aristocracy.

. The hoplites were soldiers noted for their horseback-riding skills.

. Impoverished men could not supply the armor necessary to fight in a phalanx.

. Tyranny—a government dominated by a single powerful man—emerged around 670 bc.

. The tyrants were often supported by the aristocracy, who saw them as protection against the demos.

. During the sixth century bc, Greek sculptors borrowed from Egyptian styles to create kouros and kore statues.

. The work of countless women poets from the Archaic period has survived.

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