Lesson 20

Question 1

leader of Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 1

Pericles

Question 2

431-404 BC; war between Athens and Sparta that destroyed the Athenian empire

Answer 2

Peloponnesian war

Question 3

Greek sculptor; made Parthenon statuary

Answer 3

Phidias

Question 4

temple and treasury on the Acropolis of Athens

Answer 4

Parthenon

Question 5

Greek historian; “father of history”; wrote a history of the Persian War

Answer 5

Herodotus

Question 6

Greek historian; wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 6

Thucydides

Question 7

“What you praise in my life has been due to fortune. I deserve no credit for it.”

Answer 7

Pericles

Question 8

“That of which I am proudest is that no Athenian ever wore mourning because of anything done by me.”

Answer 8

Pericles

Question 9

to lay waste; to destroy; to make unfit for habitation

Answer 9

desolate

Question 10

highly infectious, usually fatal epidemic disease

Answer 10

plague

Question 11

strip of land connecting two larger masses of land

Answer 11

Ishmus

Question 12

Identify the starred location on the map.

Answer 12

Corinth