Lesson 25: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

371 B.C.

Answer 1

battle of Leuctra

Question 2

362 B.C.

Answer 2

battle of Mantinea

Question 3

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 3

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 4

401 B.C.

Answer 4

battle of Cunaxa

Question 5

399 B.C.

Answer 5

trial and death of Socrates

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Anabasis

Question 8

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 8

Artaxerxes

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Xenophon

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Cyrus

Question 11

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 11

Socrates

Question 12

The love of wisdom.

Answer 12

philosphy

Question 13

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 13

Socrates

Question 14

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 14

Plato

Question 15

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 15

Socratic Method

Question 16

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 16

the Academy

Question 17

431-404 B.C.

Answer 17

Peloponnesian War

Question 18

430 B.C.

Answer 18

plague at Athens

Question 19

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 19

Lysander

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Lysander

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Thirty Tyrants

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Alcibiades

Question 23

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 23

Olympic Games

Question 24

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 24

Elis

Question 25

443-429 B.C.

Answer 25

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 26

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 26

Peloponnesian War

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Pericles

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Herodotus

Question 29

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 29

Thucydides

Question 30

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 30

Pericles

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Pericles

Question 32

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 32

Attica

Question 33

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 33

Parthenon

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Phidias

Question 35

468 B.C.

Answer 35

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Cimon

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Cimon

Question 38

The port city of Athens.

Answer 38

Piraeus

Question 39

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 39

Long Walls

Question 40

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 40

Athens and Sparta

Question 41

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 41

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 42

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 42

Aristophanes

Question 43

479 B.C.

Answer 43

battle of Plataea

Question 44

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 44

Aristides

Question 45

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 45

Plataea

Question 46

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

Answer 46

ostracism

Question 47

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 47

Mardonius

Question 48

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 48

Pausanias

Question 49

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 49

Mycale

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Themistocles

Question 51

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 51

war ships

Question 52

480 B.C.

Answer 52

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 53

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 53

Leonidas

Question 54

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 54

Spartan 300

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Xerxes

Question 56

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 56

Hellespont

Question 57

490 B.C.

Answer 57

battle of Marathon

Question 58

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 58

Darius

Question 59

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 59

Miltiades

Question 60

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

Answer 60

Phidippides

Question 61

560 B.C.

Answer 61

coup of Pisistratus

Question 62

527 B.C.

Answer 62

death of Pisistratus

Question 63

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 63

republic

Question 64

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

Answer 64

Pisistratus

Question 65

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 65

Athens

Question 66

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 66

olive tree

Question 67

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 67

Acropolis

Question 68

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 68

Sparta

Question 69

624 B.C.

Answer 69

Draco's code

Question 70

594 B.C.

Answer 70

Solon's reforms

Question 71

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

Answer 71

Draco

Question 72

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

Answer 72

Solon

Question 73

Rule by the many.

Answer 73

democracy

Question 74

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 74

Croesus

Question 75

776 B.C.

Answer 75

first Olympic games

Question 76

650 B.C.

Answer 76

Lycurgus

Question 77

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

Answer 77

Lycurgus

Question 78

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 78

Lycurgus

Question 79

Rule by the few.

Answer 79

oligarchy

Question 80

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 80

Helots

Question 81

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 81

Peloponnesus

Question 82

1200 B.C.

Answer 82

Trojan War