Lesson 22: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

431-404 B.C.

Answer 1

Peloponnesian War

Question 2

430 B.C.

Answer 2

plague at Athens

Question 3

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 3

Lysander

Question 4

He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.

Answer 4

Lysander

Question 5

Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.

Answer 5

Thirty Tyrants

Question 6

Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.

Answer 6

Alcibiades

Question 7

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 7

Olympic Games

Question 8

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 8

Elis

Question 9

443-429 B.C.

Answer 9

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 10

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 10

Peloponnesian War

Question 11

He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

Answer 11

Pericles

Question 12

He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.

Answer 12

Herodotus

Question 13

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 13

Thucydides

Question 14

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 14

Pericles

Question 15

He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.

Answer 15

Pericles

Question 16

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 16

Attica

Question 17

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 17

Parthenon

Question 18

The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.

Answer 18

Phidias

Question 19

468 B.C.

Answer 19

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 20

He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.

Answer 20

Cimon

Question 21

The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.

Answer 21

Cimon

Question 22

The port city of Athens.

Answer 22

Piraeus

Question 23

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 23

Long Walls

Question 24

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 24

Athens and Sparta

Question 25

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 25

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 26

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 26

Aristophanes

Question 27

479 B.C.

Answer 27

battle of Plataea

Question 28

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 28

Aristides

Question 29

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 29

Plataea

Question 30

Word that means "to banish" and "earthenware tablet."

Answer 30

ostracism

Question 31

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 31

Mardonius

Question 32

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 32

Pausanias

Question 33

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 33

Mycale

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Themistocles

Question 35

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 35

war ships

Question 36

480 B.C.

Answer 36

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 37

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 37

Leonidas

Question 38

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 38

Spartan 300

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Xerxes

Question 40

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 40

Hellespont

Question 41

490 B.C.

Answer 41

battle of Marathon

Question 42

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 42

Darius

Question 43

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 43

Miltiades

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Phidippides

Question 45

560 B.C.

Answer 45

coup of Pisistratus

Question 46

527 B.C.

Answer 46

death of Pisistratus

Question 47

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 47

republic

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Pisistratus

Question 49

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 49

Athens

Question 50

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 50

olive tree

Question 51

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 51

Acropolis

Question 52

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 52

Sparta

Question 53

624 B.C.

Answer 53

Draco's code

Question 54

594 B.C.

Answer 54

Solon's reforms

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Draco

Question 56

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

Answer 56

Solon

Question 57

Rule by the many.

Answer 57

democracy

Question 58

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 58

Croesus

Question 59

776 B.C.

Answer 59

first Olympic games

Question 60

650 B.C.

Answer 60

Lycurgus

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Lycurgus

Question 62

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 62

Lycurgus

Question 63

Rule by the few.

Answer 63

oligarchy

Question 64

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 64

Helots

Question 65

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 65

Peloponnesus

Question 66

1200 B.C.

Answer 66

Trojan War