Lesson 30: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander.

Answer 1

Alexandria, Egypt

Question 2

This city had the greatest library in the ancient world.

Answer 2

Alexandria

Question 3

Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt

Answer 3

Ptolemy

Question 4

He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek.

Answer 4

Ptolemy Philadelphus

Question 5

The Greek Translation of the Bible, translated by 70 scholars in 70 days.

Answer 5

Septuagint

Question 6

Dynasty of Greek ruler sin Egypt.

Answer 6

Ptolemy

Question 7

Last of the Ptolemy line.

Answer 7

Cleopatra

Question 8

Teh country that invented the alphabet and was great city of commerce.

Answer 8

Phoenicia

Question 9

The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Answer 9

Suez Canal

Question 10

Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion.

Answer 10

Baal worship

Question 11

He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.

Answer 11

Diogenes

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Epicureanism

Question 13

Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.

Answer 13

Aristotle

Question 14

Aristotle’s most famous pupil.

Answer 14

Alexander

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Zeno

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Stoicism

Question 17

336 B.C.

Answer 17

death of Philip

Question 18

323 B.C.

Answer 18

death of Alexander

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Demosthenes

Question 20

Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.

Answer 20

Demosthenes

Question 21

He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.

Answer 21

Demosthenes

Question 22

A bitter denunciation of a man or party.

Answer 22

Philippic

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Demosthenes

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Alexander

Question 25

King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

Answer 25

Darius III

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Alexander

Question 27

The name of Alexander's horse.

Answer 27

Bucephalus

Question 28

He cut the Gordian knot.

Answer 28

Alexander

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Thebes

Question 30

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 30

Philip of Macedonia

Question 31

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 31

phalanx

Question 32

371 B.C.

Answer 32

battle of Leuctra

Question 33

362 B.C.

Answer 33

battle of Mantinea

Question 34

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 34

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 35

401 B.C.

Answer 35

battle of Cunaxa

Question 36

399 B.C.

Answer 36

trial and death of Socrates

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Anabasis

Question 39

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 39

Artaxerxes

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Xenophon

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Cyrus

Question 42

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 42

Socrates

Question 43

The love of wisdom.

Answer 43

philosphy

Question 44

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 44

Socrates

Question 45

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 45

Plato

Question 46

Socrates' question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 46

Socratic Method

Question 47

Plato's open-air school at Athens.

Answer 47

the Academy

Question 48

431-404 B.C.

Answer 48

Peloponnesian War

Question 49

430 B.C.

Answer 49

plague at Athens

Question 50

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 50

Lysander

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Lysander

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Thirty Tyrants

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Alcibiades

Question 54

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 54

Olympic Games

Question 55

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 55

Elis

Question 56

443-429 B.C.

Answer 56

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 57

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 57

Peloponnesian War

Question 58

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

Answer 58

Pericles

Question 59

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

Answer 59

Herodotus

Question 60

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 60

Thucydides

Question 61

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 61

Pericles

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Pericles

Question 63

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 63

Attica

Question 64

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 64

Parthenon

Question 65

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

Answer 65

Phidias

Question 66

468 B.C.

Answer 66

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 67

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

Answer 67

Cimon

Question 68

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

Answer 68

Cimon

Question 69

The port city of Athens.

Answer 69

Piraeus

Question 70

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 70

Long Walls

Question 71

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 71

Athens and Sparta

Question 72

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 72

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 73

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 73

Aristophanes

Question 74

479 B.C.

Answer 74

battle of Plataea

Question 75

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 75

Aristides

Question 76

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 76

Plataea

Question 77

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

Answer 77

ostracism

Question 78

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 78

Mardonius

Question 79

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 79

Pausanias

Question 80

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 80

Mycale

Question 81

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

Answer 81

Themistocles

Question 82

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 82

war ships

Question 83

480 B.C.

Answer 83

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 84

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 84

Leonidas

Question 85

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 85

Spartan 300

Question 86

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

Answer 86

Xerxes

Question 87

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 87

Hellespont

Question 88

490 B.C.

Answer 88

battle of Marathon

Question 89

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 89

Darius

Question 90

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 90

Miltiades

Question 91

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

Answer 91

Phidippides

Question 92

560 B.C.

Answer 92

coup of Pisistratus

Question 93

527 B.C.

Answer 93

death of Pisistratus

Question 94

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 94

republic

Question 95

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

Answer 95

Pisistratus

Question 96

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 96

Athens

Question 97

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 97

olive tree

Question 98

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 98

Acropolis

Question 99

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 99

Sparta

Question 100

624 B.C.

Answer 100

Draco's code

Question 101

594 B.C.

Answer 101

Solon's reforms

Question 102

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

Answer 102

Draco

Question 103

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

Answer 103

Solon

Question 104

Rule by the many.

Answer 104

democracy

Question 105

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 105

Croesus

Question 106

776 B.C.

Answer 106

first Olympic games

Question 107

650 B.C.

Answer 107

Lycurgus

Question 108

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

Answer 108

Lycurgus

Question 109

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 109

Lycurgus

Question 110

Rule by the few.

Answer 110

oligarchy

Question 111

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 111

Helots

Question 112

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 112

Peloponnesus

Question 113

1200 B.C.

Answer 113

Trojan War