Lesson 24: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

401 B.C.

Answer 1

battle of Cunaxa

Question 2

399 B.C.

Answer 2

trial and death of Socrates

Question 3

Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.

Answer 3

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 4

Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000.

Answer 4

Anabasis

Question 5

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 5

Artaxerxes

Question 6

Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia.

Answer 6

Xenophon

Question 7

Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother’s throne.

Answer 7

Cyrus

Question 8

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 8

Socrates

Question 9

The love of wisdom.

Answer 9

philosphy

Question 10

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 10

Socrates

Question 11

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 11

Plato

Question 12

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 12

Socratic Method

Question 13

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 13

the Academy

Question 14

431-404 B.C.

Answer 14

Peloponnesian War

Question 15

430 B.C.

Answer 15

plague at Athens

Question 16

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 16

Lysander

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Lysander

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Thirty Tyrants

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Alcibiades

Question 20

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 20

Olympic Games

Question 21

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 21

Elis

Question 22

443-429 B.C.

Answer 22

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 23

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 23

Peloponnesian War

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Pericles

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Herodotus

Question 26

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 26

Thucydides

Question 27

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 27

Pericles

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Pericles

Question 29

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 29

Attica

Question 30

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 30

Parthenon

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Phidias

Question 32

468 B.C.

Answer 32

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Cimon

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Cimon

Question 35

The port city of Athens.

Answer 35

Piraeus

Question 36

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 36

Long Walls

Question 37

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 37

Athens and Sparta

Question 38

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 38

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 39

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 39

Aristophanes

Question 40

479 B.C.

Answer 40

battle of Plataea

Question 41

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 41

Aristides

Question 42

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 42

Plataea

Question 43

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

Answer 43

ostracism

Question 44

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 44

Mardonius

Question 45

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 45

Pausanias

Question 46

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 46

Mycale

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Themistocles

Question 48

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 48

war ships

Question 49

480 B.C.

Answer 49

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 50

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 50

Leonidas

Question 51

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 51

Spartan 300

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Xerxes

Question 53

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 53

Hellespont

Question 54

490 B.C.

Answer 54

battle of Marathon

Question 55

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 55

Darius

Question 56

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 56

Miltiades

Question 57

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

Answer 57

Phidippides

Question 58

560 B.C.

Answer 58

coup of Pisistratus

Question 59

527 B.C.

Answer 59

death of Pisistratus

Question 60

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 60

republic

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Pisistratus

Question 62

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 62

Athens

Question 63

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 63

olive tree

Question 64

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 64

Acropolis

Question 65

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 65

Sparta

Question 66

624 B.C.

Answer 66

Draco's code

Question 67

594 B.C.

Answer 67

Solon's reforms

Question 68

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

Answer 68

Draco

Question 69

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

Answer 69

Solon

Question 70

Rule by the many.

Answer 70

democracy

Question 71

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 71

Croesus

Question 72

776 B.C.

Answer 72

first Olympic games

Question 73

650 B.C.

Answer 73

Lycurgus

Question 74

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

Answer 74

Lycurgus

Question 75

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 75

Lycurgus

Question 76

Rule by the few.

Answer 76

oligarchy

Question 77

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 77

Helots

Question 78

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 78

Peloponnesus

Question 79

1200 B.C.

Answer 79

Trojan War