Lesson 17: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Themistocles

Question 2

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 2

war ships

Question 3

480 B.C.

Answer 3

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 4

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 4

Leonidas

Question 5

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 5

Spartan 300

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Xerxes

Question 7

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 7

Hellespont

Question 8

490 B.C.

Answer 8

battle of Marathon

Question 9

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 9

Darius

Question 10

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 10

Miltiades

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Phidippides

Question 12

560 B.C.

Answer 12

coup of Pisistratus

Question 13

527 B.C.

Answer 13

death of Pisistratus

Question 14

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 14

republic

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Pisistratus

Question 16

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 16

Athens

Question 17

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 17

olive tree

Question 18

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 18

Acropolis

Question 19

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 19

Sparta

Question 20

624 B.C.

Answer 20

Draco’s code

Question 21

594 B.C.

Answer 21

Solon’s reforms

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Draco

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Solon

Question 24

Rule by the many.

Answer 24

democracy

Question 25

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 25

Croesus

Question 26

776 B.C.

Answer 26

first Olympic games

Question 27

650 B.C.

Answer 27

Lycurgus

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Lycurgus

Question 29

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 29

Lycurgus

Question 30

Rule by the few.

Answer 30

oligarchy

Question 31

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 31

Helots

Question 32

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 32

Peloponnesus

Question 33

1200 B.C.

Answer 33

Trojan War