Answer the Following Questions

question 14

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions:
-sophists

• A)A Bronze Age culture that flourished in Greece from about 1650 B.C.E. to 1100 B.C.E., building fortified palaces and cities.
• B)In Plato's thought, the eternal unchanging ideal forms that are the essence of true reality.
• C)Generally translated as "city-state," it was the basic political and institutional unit of Greece in the Hellenic period.
• D)Unfree residents of Sparta forced to work state lands.
• E)A wealthy and vibrant culture on Crete from around 1900 B.C.E. to 1450 B.C.E., ruled by a king with a large palace at Knossos.
• F)Heavily armed citizens who served as infantrymen and fought to defend the polis.
• G)A method of inquiry used by Socrates and based on asking questions; through it, participants developed their critical-thinking skills and explored ethical issues.
• H)A type of Greek government in which all citizens administered the workings of government.
• I)A type of Greek government in which citizens who owned a certain amount of property ruled.
• J)Rule by one man who took over an existing government, generally by using his wealth to gain a political following.
• K)Women's quarters at the back of an Athenian house where the women of the family and the female slaves worked, ate, and slept.
• L)A group of thinkers in fifth-century B.C.E. Athens who applied philosophical speculation to politics and language and were accused of deceit.
• M)Belief systems that were characterized by secret doctrines, rituals of initiation, and sometimes the promise of rebirth or an afterlife.

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