Lesson 15: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

490 B.C.

Answer 1

battle of Marathon

Question 2

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 2

Darius

Question 3

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 3

Miltiades

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Phidippides

Question 5

560 B.C.

Answer 5

coup of Pisistratus

Question 6

527 B.C.

Answer 6

death of Pisistratus

Question 7

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 7

republic

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Pisistratus

Question 9

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 9

Athens

Question 10

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 10

olive tree

Question 11

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 11

Acropolis

Question 12

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 12

Sparta

Question 13

624 B.C.

Answer 13

Draco’s code

Question 14

594 B.C.

Answer 14

Solon’s reforms

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Draco

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Solon

Question 17

Rule by the many.

Answer 17

democracy

Question 18

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 18

Croesus

Question 19

776 B.C.

Answer 19

first Olympic games

Question 20

650 B.C.

Answer 20

Lycurgus

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Lycurgus

Question 22

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 22

Lycurgus

Question 23

Rule by the few.

Answer 23

oligarchy

Question 24

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 24

Helots

Question 25

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 25

Peloponnesus

Question 26

1200 B.C.

Answer 26

Trojan War