Lesson 26: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards

1
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Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

A

Philip of Macedonia

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2
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Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

A

phalanx

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3
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371 B.C.

A

battle of Leuctra

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4
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362 B.C.

A

battle of Mantinea

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5
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Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

A

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

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6
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401 B.C.

A

battle of Cunaxa

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7
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399 B.C.

A

trial and death of Socrates

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8
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Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.

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Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

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9
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Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000.

A

Anabasis

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10
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Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

A

Artaxerxes

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11
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Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia.

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Xenophon

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12
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Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother’s throne.

A

Cyrus

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13
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He drank hemlock cheerfully.

A

Socrates

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14
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The love of wisdom.

A

philosphy

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15
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The ugliest person in all of Greece.

A

Socrates

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16
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Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

A

Plato

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17
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Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

A

Socratic Method

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18
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Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

A

the Academy

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19
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431-404 B.C.

A

Peloponnesian War

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20
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430 B.C.

A

plague at Athens

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21
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Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

A

Lysander

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22
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He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.

A

Lysander

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23
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Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.

A

Thirty Tyrants

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24
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Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.

A

Alcibiades

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25
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How the Greeks dated time.

A

Olympic Games

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26
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The Olympic Games were held here.

A

Elis

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27
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443-429 B.C.

A

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

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28
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Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

A

Peloponnesian War

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29
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He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

A

Pericles

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30
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He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.

A

Herodotus

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31
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Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

A

Thucydides

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32
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The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

A

Pericles

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33
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He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.

A

Pericles

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34
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Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

A

Attica

35
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The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

A

Parthenon

36
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The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.

A

Phidias

37
Q

468 B.C.

A

Cimon defeats Persians

38
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He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.

A

Cimon

39
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The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.

A

Cimon

40
Q

The port city of Athens.

A

Piraeus

41
Q

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

A

Long Walls

42
Q

The two legs of Greece.

A

Athens and Sparta

43
Q

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

A

Aeschylus and Sophocles

44
Q

Greek comic playwright.

A

Aristophanes

45
Q

479 B.C.

A

battle of Plataea

46
Q

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

A

Aristides

47
Q

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

A

Plataea

48
Q

Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet.”

A

ostracism

49
Q

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

A

Mardonius

50
Q

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

A

Pausanias

51
Q

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

A

Mycale

52
Q

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

A

Themistocles

53
Q

The wooden walls of Athens.

A

war ships

54
Q

480 B.C.

A

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

55
Q

The hero of Thermopylae.

A

Leonidas

56
Q

Elite Spartan military force.

A

Spartan 300

57
Q

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

A

Xerxes

58
Q

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

A

Hellespont

59
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490 B.C.

A

battle of Marathon

60
Q

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

A

Darius

61
Q

The hero of Marathon.

A

Miltiades

62
Q

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

A

Phidippides

63
Q

560 B.C.

A

coup of Pisistratus

64
Q

527 B.C.

A

death of Pisistratus

65
Q

Rule by magistrates or councils.

A

republic

66
Q

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

A

Pisistratus

67
Q

The Acropolis was in this city.

A

Athens

68
Q

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

A

olive tree

69
Q

The citadel of Athens.

A

Acropolis

70
Q

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

A

Sparta

71
Q

624 B.C.

A

Draco’s code

72
Q

594 B.C.

A

Solon’s reforms

73
Q

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

A

Draco

74
Q

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

A

Solon

75
Q

Rule by the many.

A

democracy

76
Q

Rich king of Lydia.

A

Croesus

77
Q

776 B.C.

A

first Olympic games

78
Q

650 B.C.

A

Lycurgus

79
Q

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

A

Lycurgus

80
Q

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

A

Lycurgus

81
Q

Rule by the few.

A

oligarchy

82
Q

The slaves of the Spartans.

A

Helots

83
Q

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

A

Peloponnesus

84
Q

1200 B.C.

A

Trojan War