Dates Flashcards
(98 cards)
1
Q
When were the Greek cities of Asia Minor and Cyprus conquered by Persia?
A
Mid-late 6th century BCE
2
Q
When did Darius come to power?
A
522
3
Q
When did the Persians try to invade Naxos?
A
499
4
Q
When was the Ionian Revolt?
A
499-494
5
Q
When was Mardonius’ initial campaign in northern Greece?
A
492
6
Q
When did Darius ask for earth and water?
A
491
7
Q
When did Darius invade Greece?
A
490
8
Q
When was the Battle of Marathon?
A
490
9
Q
When did Egypt rebel from Persian rule?
A
486
10
Q
When did Darius die and Xerxes come to power?
A
486
11
Q
When did Themistocles persuade the Athenian assembly to spend their money on ships?
A
483/2
12
Q
When did Xerxes ask for earth and water?
A
481
13
Q
When did Xerxes invade Greece?
A
480
14
Q
When was the Battle of Thermopylae?
A
August 480
15
Q
When was the Battle of Artemisium?
A
August 480
16
Q
When was the Battle of Salamis?
A
September 480
17
Q
When was the Battle of Plataea?
A
479
18
Q
When was the Battle of Mycale?
A
479
19
Q
When was the siege of Sestos?
A
479
20
Q
When did Athens rebuild their city walls?
A
478
21
Q
When did Athens build their Long Walls?
A
458
22
Q
When did the Delian League first meet?
A
477
23
Q
When was the Battle of Eurymedon?
A
Early 460s
24
Q
When did Xerxes die and Artaxerxes ascend?
A
456
25
When did Naxos try to secede from the Delian League?
c. 470
26
When did Athens force Carystus to join the Delian League?
472
27
When did Athens force Aegina to join the Delian League?
457
28
When did Thasos revolt from the Delian League?
456
29
When was the earthquake and helot revolt in Sparta?
456
30
When was Cimon ostracised from Athens for 10 years?
461
31
When was the First Peloponnesian War?
460-446
32
When was the Battle of Tanagra?
457
33
When did Egypt rebel from Persia?
460
34
When did Persia put down the Egyptian rebellion?
454
35
When was the Delian League treasury moved to Athens?
454/3
36
When did Pericles become a key political and military leader in Athens?
450s
37
When did Athens and the Peloponnesians agree to a five-year peace?
451
38
When did Athens launch a campaign against Cyprus?
451
39
When was the supposed peace of Callias agreed?
c.449
40
When was the Chalkis Decree passed?
c.446
41
When did Boeotia successfully revolt from Athens?
447
42
When did Euboea and Megara revolt from Athens?
446
43
When did Pleistoanax lead the Peloponnesians into Attica?
446
44
When was the 30 Year Peace agreed?
446
45
When were Samos and Miletus at war?
440
46
When was the debate for war?
432
47
When did Athens send ships to the Ambracian Gulf?
Late 430s
48
When did Epidamnus' democrats ask Corcyra then Corinth for help?
435
49
When did Corcyra ask Athens for help?
433
50
When did Corinth attack Corcyra?
Late 433
51
When did Athens demand Potidaea tear down their defences?
432
52
When was the Archidamian War?
431-421
53
When did Sparta invade Attica?
431, 430, 428, 427 and 425
54
When did Thebes attack Plataea?
431
55
When was the plague in Athens?
430-429
56
When was the resurgence of the plague in Athens?
426
57
When did the Peloponnesians send an embassy to Persia that was detained and executed by the prince of Thrace?
430
58
When did Athens' siege of Potidaea end?
429
59
When was the Battle of Naupactus?
429
60
When did Mytilene revolt from Athens
428
61
When was the Cleonymos Decree?
426
62
When was the Thoudippos Decree?
425
63
When did Demosthenes fortify a position in Pylos?
425
64
When did the Spartans at Sphacteria surrender to Athens?
425
65
When was Brasidas sent to Thrace?
424
66
When did Brasidas convince Acanthus and Amphipolis to rebel from Athens?
424
67
When was the Battle of Delium?
424
68
When did Athens and Sparta sign an armistice?
423
69
When did Brasidas convince Scione and Mende to rebel from Athens?
423
70
When did Nicias re-take Mende and Scione for Athens?
423
71
When did Cleon re-take Torone for Athens?
422
72
When was the Battle of Amphipolis?
422
73
When was the Peace of Nicias?
421
74
When did Argos attack Epidaurus?
419
75
When was the Battle of Mantinea?
418
76
By when had all alliances that changed after the Peace of Nicias been restored to how they were before?
417
77
When was Athens' expedition to Sicily?
415-13
78
When did Syracuse ask the Peloponnesians for help against Athens?
The winter of 415-14
79
When was the Ionian War?
413-404
80
When was a Spartan message to Persia asking for help intercepted by Athens?
425
81
When was the possible peace between Athens and Persia made?
c. 424/3
82
When did Chios and Miletus rebel from Athens?
412
83
When did Sparta ally with Persia?
412
84
When was the democratic revolution in Samos?
411
85
When was the oligarchy of 400 in Athens replaced by an oligarchy of 5,000?
411
86
When did Euboea rebel from Athens?
411
87
When were the battles of Cynossema and Abydos?
411
88
When was the Battle of Cyzicus?
410
89
When was democracy restored in Athens?
410
90
When did Darius II give Sparta his full support?
407
91
When was Lysander made commander of the Spartan forces?
407
92
When was Alcibiades banished again from Athens after being reinstated?
407
93
When did Callicratidus replace Lysander?
406
94
When was the Battle of Arginusae?
406
95
When may Sparta have sued for peace?
410 and 406
96
When did the Asiatic Greeks demand Lysander be reinstated?
405
97
When was Cyrus recalled to Persia?
405
98
When was the Battle of Aegospotami?
405
