Chapter 12 Quizzes

The New World of the Hellenistic Period
. What are the dates of the Hellenistic period?

. The father and son duo of ______ were the first of Alexander's successors to accept the acclamation of themselves as kings.

. On his deathbed Alexander gave his signet ring to ______.

. Rhodes' victory in 154 BC over Prusias II, the king of Bithynia,is commemorated by the famous Hellenistic statue known as the ______.

. The goal of Epicureanism is to attain the untroubled state of mind known as ______.

. To whom did Seleucus I give up his claims to Alexander the Great's conquests in India?

. The name "Cynics" derives from Diogenes' nickname, which translates as what?

. Which Hellenistic kingdom was marked by the institution of a cult of the living ruler, his wife, and his ancestors?

. Who is the founder of Stoicism?

. The roots of the rebellion of the European Greeks after the death of Alexander were grounded primarily in what issue?

. Which of the following was the new, syncretic god created in Alexandria under Ptolemy I?

. Which of the following was the great capital founded by Seleucus?

. In three wars between 89-63 BC, the Romans fought and finally defeated ______, the king of Pontus who claimed descent from the Achaemenid kings of Persia and Alexander the Great.

. Who became the ruler of Macedon after the deaths of Philip III and Olympias (even though he claimed to be only the regent for Alexander IV)?

. Which two institutions were the principal cultural sites of Hellenistic Alexandria?

. Stoicism called for a withdrawal from political and social life, and a retreat to a very limited private life.

. Apollonius of Rhodes transformed the epigram into a flexible literary form that could be used to commemorate both minor and serious topics.

. The greatest achievements of Hellenistic intellectuals lay in the fields of literary scholarship and applied science.

. The Peace of 311 BC was little more than a truce that Antigonus the One-Eyed and his rivals used to rebuild their strength.

. Eighteenth-century federalists, including Montesquieu and James Madison, studied the Achaean League and Anatolian League as possible models for new federal states.

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