Greece Flashcards
(167 cards)
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Who taught Aristotle?
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Plato
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Who taught Plato?
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Socrates
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Who taught Alexander?
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Aristotle
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Who taught Phillip II?
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Epaminondas
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Who taught Timon?
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Pyrrho
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Who is Alexander’s Father?
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Phillip II
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Who is Cronus’s Father?
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Uranus
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Who is Zeus’s Father?
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Cronus
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Who is Orestes’s Father?
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Agamemnon
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Who is Helen’s Father?
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Zeus
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What is Achilles? (state)
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Achaean
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What is Aeneus? (state)
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Trojan
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What is Agamemnon? (state)
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Achean
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What is Cimon? (state)
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Athenian
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Who is Cimon?
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Cimon is a greek general associated with the Delian league, his father is Miltiades. He fought against the Persians. Battle of the Eurymedon.
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Who is Miltiades?
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He fought in the battle of Marathon against the Persians, was seen as the hero of the war but then fell from grace and became a Persian hero.
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What is Cleisthenes? (state)
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Athenian
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Who is Cleisthenes?
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Father of Democracy
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What is Cyrus? (state)
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Trojan
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What is Darius? (state)
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Persian
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Who is Darius?
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The guy who lead the Persian- Greek fights, since he was the leader of The Persian Empire. Participated in the Battle of Marathon. The guy who built Persepolis.
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What is Hector? (state)
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Trojan
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What is Leonidas? (state)
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Spartan
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Who is Leonidas?
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King of Sparta and fought in Thermopylae same time as Xerxes (Persian). Died in battle.
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What is Lycurgus? (state)
Sparta
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Who is Lycurgus?
Lycurgus is that baddie who said the Spartan way of life was too soft and that they needed to prepare for slave revolt.
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What is Menelaus? (state)
Achaean
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What is Minos? (state)
Minoan
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Who is Minos?
He is the son of Zeus, King of Crete, step dad to the minotaur.
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What is Odysseus? (state)
My baddie Achaean reining king of Ithica, neither man or mythical, Polyphemus' darkest moment.
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What is Paris? (state)
Trojan
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What is Pasiphaë? (state)
Minoan
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What is Patroclus? (state)
Achaean
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What is Priam? (state)
Trojan
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Who is Priam?
King of Troy during the Trojan War
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What is Solon? (state)
Athens
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Who is Solon?
Forgotten Father of democracy, came first before Cleisthenes.
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What is Themistocles? (state)
Athenian
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Who is Themistocles?
General in the Battle of Salamis, the guy who recognized Athens's potential for naval power. After his victory in Athens brother was booted out of the country and sought refuge in Persia. Also same time as Xeres.
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What is Xeres? (state)
Persian
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Who is Xerxes?
Son of Darius, King of Persia, fought in the battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Salamis.
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Identify the date of the following battles and put them in order: Chaeronaea, Gaugamella, Marathon, Plataea, Salamis, Thermopylae, Troy
Troy (12 cenutry BCE), Marathon (490 BCE), Thermopylae (480 BCE), Salamis (480 BCE), Plataea (479 BCE), Caeronaea (338 BCE), Gaugamela (331 BCE).
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Who killed Hector?
Achilles
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Who killed Agamemnon?
Clytemnestra, (his wife).
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Who killed the Minotaur?
Theseus
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Who killed Clytemnestra?
Orestes, (her son).
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Who killed Achilles?
Paris and Apollo dual effort.
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Who killed Iphegenia?
Agamemnon, (her dad).
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Why is Lycurgus famous?
He's the baddie who made Sparta a powerhouse.
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Why is Solon famous?
The forgotten father of democracy
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Why is Pericles famous?
Fought in the Peloponnesian war, also in the Delian league. He's also the guy who did that thing with the poors.
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Why is Cleisthenes famous?
The father of democracy after Solon.
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Why is Pisitratus famous?
Pisistratus' rule helped set the stage for the later development of Athenian democracy, as it gradually weakened the traditional aristocratic powers while giving more attention to the common people. His sons are those twins.
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What battle did Themistocles fight in?
The Battle of Salamis
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What battle did Hector fight in?
The Battle of Troy
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What battle did Leonidas fight in?
The Battle of Thermoplyae
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What battle did Pericles fight in?
The Peloponnesian War
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What battle did Miltiades fight in?
The Battle of Marathon
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What battle did Xerxes fight in?
The Battle of Salamis and Thermopylae
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What battle did Cyrus fight in?
The Battle of Troy
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What battle did Darius fight in?
The Battle of Marathon
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What battle did Philip II fight in?
Battle of Chaeronaea
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What battle did Alexander fight in?
Battle of Gaugamela
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Ostracism
Athens
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Gerousia
Sparta
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Labrys
Crete
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Parthenon
Athens
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Labyrinth
Crete
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Rhetra
Sparta
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Ephors
Sparta
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Minos
Crete
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Double Envelopment
Macedonia
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The Immortals
Persia
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Apella
Sparta
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Lacedaemon
Sparta
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Thalassocracy
Athens
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Delos
Athens
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Piraeus
Athens
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What is the Delian League?
an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens
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Achilles returns to battle after whose death?
Patroclus
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At what age was a Spartan a full citizen?
30
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At what age were Spartan boys taken from their mothers?
7
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Cimon was a citizen of which city?
Athens
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Cleisthenes changed the size of the Athenian boule to how many?
500
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During which war did the Athenians utilize the “long walls” connecting Athens and their port the
“piraeus”?
Peloponnesian War
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Epicureanism was founded by whom?
Epicurus
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How did Lycurgus change Spartan custom?
He made them vigorously train starting at the age of 7
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How did Lycurgus change the land ownership in Sparta?
Lycurgus redistributed land in Sparta to ensure equality among citizens
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How many spartans fought at Marathon?
about 1,000 Spartan soldiers
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How many spartans fought at Thermopylae?
300 Spartans
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How was Thera destroyed?
Volcanic eruption
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Why did Lycurgus institute the Spartan way of life?
Slave revolt
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What form of money did Lycurgus institute?
Iron bars
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Pericles gained prominence in Athens by gaining the favour of whom?
the common people
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Philip II conquered Greece in 338 BC at which battle?
Battle of Chaeronea
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Salamis is nearest to which Greek city?
Athens
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Solon allowed only one export for Athens. What was that export?
Olive Oil
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Solon instituted a council of how many?
400
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Solon was the famous lawgiver of which city?
Athens
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Sparta had how many kings?
two kings at a time
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The followers of which philosopher are known as the Peripatetics?
Aristotle
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The Gerousia consisted of how many members?
28
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The Greeks fought which nation’s army at the battle of Salamis?
Persia
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The Labrys is most closely associated with which nation?
Crete
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The Labyrinth was most closely associated with which nation?
Crete
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The Peloponnesian war ended in which year?
404 BCE
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The Phaistos Disk is most closely associated with which nation?
Crete
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The Snake Goddess is most closely associated with which nation?
Crete
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The Spartans won the Peloponnesian war with the aid of whom?
The Persians
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The standard heavily-armoured Greek soldier was known as what?
hoplite
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Themistocles was responsible for what?
Athens Navy
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Thera is most closely associated with which nation?
Minoan
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What is a “sussition”?
Dining club in Sparta
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What was an ostrakon was used for?
the pot they used for ostracism
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What was the fate of Minos in the underworld?
became a judge in the Underworld after his death
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What was the name of Alexander the Great’s horse?
Bucephalus
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Where did the Delian league have their treasury?
First at Delos then at Athens
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Where was Alexander proclaimed a “son of god?”
Egypt
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Where were the largest Minoan palace complexes?
Knossos, Phaistos, and Malia on the island of Crete.
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Which Athenian convinced the city to build the navy that saved them at Salamis?
Themistocles
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Which civilization succeeded the Minoan civilization?
Mycenaean civilization
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Which famous Athenians were ostracized?
Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles
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Which figures were tyrants of Athens?
Peisistratus, Hippias, Hipparchus
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Which god is considered the “king” of the Greek gods?
Zeus
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Which god was known for his philandering (sleeping around)?
Zeus
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Which philosopher founded the Academy?
Plato
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Which philosopher is known as the “Father of Medicine”?
Hippocrates
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Which philosopher was executed for corrupting the youth of Athens?
Socretes
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Which political reformer did not allow his laws to be written?
Lycurgus
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Which political reformer wrote his laws on tablets?
Draco
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Who castrated Ouranos?
Zeus
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Who empowered the Delian League with victories over the Persians?
Themistocles
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Who excavated the ruins of Knossos?
Sir Arthur Evans
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Who excavated the ruins of Mycenae?
Heinrich Schliemann
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Who excavated the ruins of Troy?
Heinrich Schliemann
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Who led the Persian forces at Thermopylae?
Xerxes
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Who married Clytemnestra of Sparta?
Agamemnon
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Who passed laws that protected Athenians from being enslaved or arrested for debt?
Solon
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Who told the Athenians to trust in their “wooden walls”?
Themistocles
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Who was king of Persia during the first invasion of Greece?
Darius
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Who was king of Persia during the second invasion of Greece?
Xerxes
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Who was the brother of Agamemnon?
Menelaus
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Who was the father of Alexander III the Great?
Phillip II
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Who was the god of war in Greek mythology?
Ares
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Who was the great general of the Athenians during the early period of the Delian League?
Cimon
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Who was the greatest hero of the Trojans, who was killed by Achilles?
Hector
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Who was the king of Persia when they conquered Lydia?
Cyrus
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Who was the leader of Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war?
Pericles
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Who was the leader of the Athenians and their allies at Marathon?
Miltiades
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Who was the Leader of the Spartans at Thermopylae?
Leonidas
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Who won the Peloponnesian war?
The Spartans
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Who wrote the Iliad?
Homer
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Who wrote the Theogony and Cosmogony?
Hesiod
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Whose wife copulated with a bull?
Minos
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Why did Achilles withdraw from battle?
A fight with Agamemnon
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Zeus married which of his sisters?
Hera
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What is Datis? (state)
Persian
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Who is Datis?
Worked for king Daruis, general who fought in the Battle of Marathon.
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What is Artaphernes? (state)
Persian
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Who is Artaphernes?
Darius's nephew, also fought in the Battle of Marathon
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Put in chronological order; Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Skeptics, Neoplatonists, Sophists, Epicureans
Sophists – 500 BCE, Socrates – 470–399 BCE, Plato – 427–347 BCE, Aristotle – 384–322 BCE, Epicureans – 400–300 BCE, Skeptics – 300, Neoplatonists – 300
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What is Mardonius? (state)
Persian
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Who is Mardonius?
Nephew of King Darius, led the Persian forces after Xerxes.
Killed in the Battle of Plataea when the Persian army was defeated.
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What is Pausanias? (state)
Spartan
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Who is Pausanias?
Regent of Sparta and commander of the Greek allied forces. Led the Greeks to victory at Plataea.
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What is Aristides? (state)
Athenian
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Who is Aristides?
He was known as Aristides the just. He established the Delian League, played a crucial role in the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Plataea
