A.   been destroyed by Egypt

B.   conquered the entire Mediterranean and Western Europe

C.   become a democracy

D.   united with Macedon and Persia to form the Aegean League

A.   Athenian soldiers who defended the city against outside invaders

B.   the leaders of Greek colonizing expeditions, and were in charge of establishing the government of new colonies

C.   priests who tended the temple of Apollo and performed religious sacrifices to the sun-god

D.   a group of thinkers on 5th-century BCE Athens, who used philosophy to try to understand Greek politics and language

A.   governed by the high priest of Delos, who decided how worship services were to be conducted by all Greek-speaking peoples

B.   polytheistic, but had no sacred text or uniform system of belief

C.   centered around the worship of the Egyptian sun-god

D.   an extension of Hebrew monotheism

A.   are significant only to historians, and were unimportant in the ancient Greek world

B.   are attributed to the Greek poet Hesiod

C.   provide at least some historical evidence about life, culture, and warfare during the Greek Dark Age, although scholars disagree about the specifics

D.   were based on earlier Mesopotamian law codes

A.   Athens and Sparta, and their allies

B.   Ithaca and Troy

C.   Macedon and Thebes

D.   the Persian Empire and Sparta