Direction : Read the five given statements carefully and answer the questions that follow. 

I. Increased prosperity oftentimes leads to trouble, for it creates expectations of power and status to go with it

II. The problem was that the middle class artisans and farmers had little or no social status or political power to go with the expectation to fight in the phalanx.

III. In many, usually the more commercial poleis such as Corinth, Megara, and Athens, some disgruntled and ambitious nobles used the frustrated middle class to seize power from the ruling aristocracy.

IV. In order to maintain his popularity, the tyrant protected peoples' rights with a written law code, literally carved in stone, confiscated the lands of the nobles he had driven from power and redistributed them among the poor and provided jobs through building projects.

V. However, the increased prosperity brought on by the tyrants only gave the people a taste for more of the same.