Lesson 29: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.

Answer 1

Diogenes

Question 2

Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.

Answer 2

Epicureanism

Question 3

Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

Aristotle’s most famous pupil.

Answer 4

Alexander

Question 5

He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name.

Answer 5

Zeno

Question 6

Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling.

Answer 6

Stoicism

Question 7

336 B.C.

Answer 7

death of Philip

Question 8

323 B.C.

Answer 8

death of Alexander

Question 9

He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens.

Answer 9

Demosthenes

Question 10

Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.

Answer 10

Demosthenes

Question 11

He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.

Answer 11

Demosthenes

Question 12

A bitter denunciation of a man or party.

Answer 12

Philippic

Question 13

He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians.

Answer 13

Demosthenes

Question 14

He could recite the “Illiad” from beginning to end.

Answer 14

Alexander

Question 15

King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

Answer 15

Darius III

Question 16

He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer.

Answer 16

Alexander

Question 17

The name of Alexander’s horse.

Answer 17

Bucephalus

Question 18

He cut the Gordian knot.

Answer 18

Alexander

Question 19

Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground.

Answer 19

Thebes

Question 20

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 20

Philip of Macedonia

Question 21

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 21

phalanx

Question 22

371 B.C.

Answer 22

battle of Leuctra

Question 23

362 B.C.

Answer 23

battle of Mantinea

Question 24

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 24

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 25

401 B.C.

Answer 25

battle of Cunaxa

Question 26

399 B.C.

Answer 26

trial and death of Socrates

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Anabasis

Question 29

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 29

Artaxerxes

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Xenophon

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Cyrus

Question 32

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 32

Socrates

Question 33

The love of wisdom.

Answer 33

philosphy

Question 34

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 34

Socrates

Question 35

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 35

Plato

Question 36

Socrates' question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 36

Socratic Method

Question 37

Plato's open-air school at Athens.

Answer 37

the Academy

Question 38

431-404 B.C.

Answer 38

Peloponnesian War

Question 39

430 B.C.

Answer 39

plague at Athens

Question 40

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 40

Lysander

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Lysander

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Thirty Tyrants

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Alcibiades

Question 44

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 44

Olympic Games

Question 45

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 45

Elis

Question 46

443-429 B.C.

Answer 46

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 47

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 47

Peloponnesian War

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Pericles

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Herodotus

Question 50

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 50

Thucydides

Question 51

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 51

Pericles

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Pericles

Question 53

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 53

Attica

Question 54

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 54

Parthenon

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Phidias

Question 56

468 B.C.

Answer 56

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 57

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

Answer 57

Cimon

Question 58

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

Answer 58

Cimon

Question 59

The port city of Athens.

Answer 59

Piraeus

Question 60

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 60

Long Walls

Question 61

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 61

Athens and Sparta

Question 62

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 62

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 63

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 63

Aristophanes

Question 64

479 B.C.

Answer 64

battle of Plataea

Question 65

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 65

Aristides

Question 66

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 66

Plataea

Question 67

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

Answer 67

ostracism

Question 68

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 68

Mardonius

Question 69

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 69

Pausanias

Question 70

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 70

Mycale

Question 71

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

Answer 71

Themistocles

Question 72

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 72

war ships

Question 73

480 B.C.

Answer 73

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 74

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 74

Leonidas

Question 75

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 75

Spartan 300

Question 76

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

Answer 76

Xerxes

Question 77

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 77

Hellespont

Question 78

490 B.C.

Answer 78

battle of Marathon

Question 79

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 79

Darius

Question 80

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 80

Miltiades

Question 81

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

Answer 81

Phidippides

Question 82

560 B.C.

Answer 82

coup of Pisistratus

Question 83

527 B.C.

Answer 83

death of Pisistratus

Question 84

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 84

republic

Question 85

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

Answer 85

Pisistratus

Question 86

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 86

Athens

Question 87

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 87

olive tree

Question 88

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 88

Acropolis

Question 89

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 89

Sparta

Question 90

624 B.C.

Answer 90

Draco's code

Question 91

594 B.C.

Answer 91

Solon's reforms

Question 92

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

Answer 92

Draco

Question 93

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

Answer 93

Solon

Question 94

Rule by the many.

Answer 94

democracy

Question 95

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 95

Croesus

Question 96

776 B.C.

Answer 96

first Olympic games

Question 97

650 B.C.

Answer 97

Lycurgus

Question 98

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

Answer 98

Lycurgus

Question 99

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 99

Lycurgus

Question 100

Rule by the few.

Answer 100

oligarchy

Question 101

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 101

Helots

Question 102

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 102

Peloponnesus

Question 103

1200 B.C.

Answer 103

Trojan War