Lesson 21: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards

1
Q

Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.

A

Alcibiades

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2
Q

How the Greeks dated time.

A

Olympic Games

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3
Q

The Olympic Games were held here.

A

Elis

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4
Q

443-429 B.C.

A

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

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5
Q

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

A

Peloponnesian War

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6
Q

He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

A

Pericles

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7
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He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.

A

Herodotus

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8
Q

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

A

Thucydides

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9
Q

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

A

Pericles

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10
Q

He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.

A

Pericles

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11
Q

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

A

Attica

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12
Q

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

A

Parthenon

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13
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The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.

A

Phidias

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14
Q

468 B.C.

A

Cimon defeats Persians

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15
Q

He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.

A

Cimon

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16
Q

The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.

A

Cimon

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17
Q

The port city of Athens.

A

Piraeus

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18
Q

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

A

Long Walls

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19
Q

The two legs of Greece.

A

Athens and Sparta

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20
Q

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

A

Aeschylus and Sophocles

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21
Q

Greek comic playwright.

A

Aristophanes

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22
Q

479 B.C.

A

battle of Plataea

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23
Q

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

A

Aristides

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24
Q

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

A

Plataea

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25
Q

Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet.”

A

ostracism

26
Q

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

A

Mardonius

27
Q

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

A

Pausanias

28
Q

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

A

Mycale

29
Q

He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.

A

Themistocles

30
Q

The wooden walls of Athens.

A

war ships

31
Q

480 B.C.

A

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

32
Q

The hero of Thermopylae.

A

Leonidas

33
Q

Elite Spartan military force.

A

Spartan 300

34
Q

He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.

A

Xerxes

35
Q

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

A

Hellespont

36
Q

490 B.C.

A

battle of Marathon

37
Q

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

A

Darius

38
Q

The hero of Marathon.

A

Miltiades

39
Q

He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians

A

Phidippides

40
Q

560 B.C.

A

coup of Pisistratus

41
Q

527 B.C.

A

death of Pisistratus

42
Q

Rule by magistrates or councils.

A

republic

43
Q

Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.

A

Pisistratus

44
Q

The Acropolis was in this city.

A

Athens

45
Q

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

A

olive tree

46
Q

The citadel of Athens.

A

Acropolis

47
Q

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

A

Sparta

48
Q

624 B.C.

A

Draco’s code

49
Q

594 B.C.

A

Solon’s reforms

50
Q

It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.

A

Draco

51
Q

The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.

A

Solon

52
Q

Rule by the many.

A

democracy

53
Q

Rich king of Lydia.

A

Croesus

54
Q

776 B.C.

A

first Olympic games

55
Q

650 B.C.

A

Lycurgus

56
Q

He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.

A

Lycurgus

57
Q

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

A

Lycurgus

58
Q

Rule by the few.

A

oligarchy

59
Q

The slaves of the Spartans.

A

Helots

60
Q

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

A

Peloponnesus

61
Q

1200 B.C.

A

Trojan War