Lesson 20: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards
443-429 B.C.
Pericles dominates Athenian politics
Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.
Peloponnesian War
He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Pericles
He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.
Herodotus
Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides
The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.
Pericles
He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.
Pericles
Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.
Attica
The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
Parthenon
The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.
Phidias
468 B.C.
Cimon defeats Persians
He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.
Cimon
The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.
Cimon
The port city of Athens.
Piraeus
Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.
Long Walls
The two legs of Greece.
Athens and Sparta
Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.
Aeschylus and Sophocles
Greek comic playwright.
Aristophanes
479 B.C.
battle of Plataea
This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.
Aristides
Last land battle of the Persian Wars.
Plataea
Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet.”
ostracism
Persian general during the Persian Wars.
Mardonius
Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea
Pausanias
