Disputed Pasts: teacher key

Ancient Greece, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. Historians of Greece disagree about libraries, alphabets, teachers and old numbers. Weigh the evidence they weigh.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did Raaflaub say was revolutionary about Athenian democracy?
   • A king ruled for life
   • Equal political rights for all citizens (answer)
   • Women voted first
2. Why is the Caesar story about the Library doubted?
   • No one wrote about Caesar
   • The library had no books
   • The library still existed afterwards (answer)
3. How do sources differ on the Greek alphabet?
   • On when it began (answer)
   • On how many letters it has now
   • On who spoke it
4. What do clay tablets from Nineveh show?
   • The Spartans used iron money
   • Alexander founded a city
   • Babylonians knew number triplets that fit the theorem (answer)
5. Why might someone doubt a life of Hippocrates?
   • He was never a physician
   • Information about his life is patchy and unreliable (answer)
   • He lived in Sparta
6. What does phonetic mean in phonetic alphabet?
   • Each letter matches a sound (answer)
   • Each letter is a picture
   • Each letter is a number

Words

• deduction: step-by-step reasoning
• circumference: distance around
• Hippocratic: of Hippocrates
• phonetic: sound-based
• citadel: fortified hill