A.   become a democracy

B.   been destroyed by Egypt

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

D.   conquered the entire Mediterranean and Western Europe

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

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

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

D.   Athenian soldiers who defended the city against outside invaders

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

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

C.   an extension of Hebrew monotheism

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

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

B.   were based on earlier Mesopotamian law codes

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

D.   are attributed to the Greek poet Hesiod

A.   the Persian Empire and Sparta

B.   Athens and Sparta, and their allies

C.   Ithaca and Troy

D.   Macedon and Thebes