Lesson 31: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

279 B.C.

Answer 1

Pyrrhus defeats Romans at Asculum

Question 2

King from Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander.

Answer 2

Pyrrhus

Question 3

Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans

Answer 3

Archimedes

Question 4

Victory won with unacceptable losses.

Answer 4

pyrrhic victory

Question 5

The southern part of Italy was called this.

Answer 5

Magna Graecia

Question 6

This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome.

Answer 6

Carthage

Question 7

Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander.

Answer 7

Alexandria, Egypt

Question 8

This city had the greatest library in the ancient world.

Answer 8

Alexandria

Question 9

Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt

Answer 9

Ptolemy

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Ptolemy Philadelphus

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Septuagint

Question 12

Dynasty of Greek ruler sin Egypt.

Answer 12

Ptolemy

Question 13

Last of the Ptolemy line.

Answer 13

Cleopatra

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Phoenicia

Question 15

The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Answer 15

Suez Canal

Question 16

Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion.

Answer 16

Baal worship

Question 17

He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.

Answer 17

Diogenes

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Epicureanism

Question 19

Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.

Answer 19

Aristotle

Question 20

Aristotle’s most famous pupil.

Answer 20

Alexander

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Zeno

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Stoicism

Question 23

336 B.C.

Answer 23

death of Philip

Question 24

323 B.C.

Answer 24

death of Alexander

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Demosthenes

Question 26

Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.

Answer 26

Demosthenes

Question 27

He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.

Answer 27

Demosthenes

Question 28

A bitter denunciation of a man or party.

Answer 28

Philippic

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Demosthenes

Question 30

He could recite the "Illiad" from beginning to end.

Answer 30

Alexander

Question 31

King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

Answer 31

Darius III

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Alexander

Question 33

The name of Alexander's horse.

Answer 33

Bucephalus

Question 34

He cut the Gordian knot.

Answer 34

Alexander

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Thebes

Question 36

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 36

Philip of Macedonia

Question 37

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 37

phalanx

Question 38

371 B.C.

Answer 38

battle of Leuctra

Question 39

362 B.C.

Answer 39

battle of Mantinea

Question 40

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 40

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 41

401 B.C.

Answer 41

battle of Cunaxa

Question 42

399 B.C.

Answer 42

trial and death of Socrates

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Anabasis

Question 45

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 45

Artaxerxes

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Xenophon

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Cyrus

Question 48

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 48

Socrates

Question 49

The love of wisdom.

Answer 49

philosphy

Question 50

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 50

Socrates

Question 51

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 51

Plato

Question 52

Socrates' question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 52

Socratic Method

Question 53

Plato's open-air school at Athens.

Answer 53

the Academy

Question 54

431-404 B.C.

Answer 54

Peloponnesian War

Question 55

430 B.C.

Answer 55

plague at Athens

Question 56

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 56

Lysander

Question 57

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

Answer 57

Lysander

Question 58

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

Answer 58

Thirty Tyrants

Question 59

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

Answer 59

Alcibiades

Question 60

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 60

Olympic Games

Question 61

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 61

Elis

Question 62

443-429 B.C.

Answer 62

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 63

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 63

Peloponnesian War

Question 64

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

Answer 64

Pericles

Question 65

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

Answer 65

Herodotus

Question 66

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 66

Thucydides

Question 67

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 67

Pericles

Question 68

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

Answer 68

Pericles

Question 69

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 69

Attica

Question 70

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 70

Parthenon

Question 71

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

Answer 71

Phidias

Question 72

468 B.C.

Answer 72

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 73

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

Answer 73

Cimon

Question 74

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

Answer 74

Cimon

Question 75

The port city of Athens.

Answer 75

Piraeus

Question 76

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 76

Long Walls

Question 77

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 77

Athens and Sparta

Question 78

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 78

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 79

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 79

Aristophanes

Question 80

479 B.C.

Answer 80

battle of Plataea

Question 81

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 81

Aristides

Question 82

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 82

Plataea

Question 83

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

Answer 83

ostracism

Question 84

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 84

Mardonius

Question 85

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 85

Pausanias

Question 86

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 86

Mycale

Question 87

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

Answer 87

Themistocles

Question 88

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 88

war ships

Question 89

480 B.C.

Answer 89

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 90

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 90

Leonidas

Question 91

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 91

Spartan 300

Question 92

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

Answer 92

Xerxes

Question 93

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 93

Hellespont

Question 94

490 B.C.

Answer 94

battle of Marathon

Question 95

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 95

Darius

Question 96

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 96

Miltiades

Question 97

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

Answer 97

Phidippides

Question 98

560 B.C.

Answer 98

coup of Pisistratus

Question 99

527 B.C.

Answer 99

death of Pisistratus

Question 100

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 100

republic

Question 101

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

Answer 101

Pisistratus

Question 102

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 102

Athens

Question 103

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 103

olive tree

Question 104

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 104

Acropolis

Question 105

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 105

Sparta

Question 106

624 B.C.

Answer 106

Draco's code

Question 107

594 B.C.

Answer 107

Solon's reforms

Question 108

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

Answer 108

Draco

Question 109

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

Answer 109

Solon

Question 110

Rule by the many.

Answer 110

democracy

Question 111

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 111

Croesus

Question 112

776 B.C.

Answer 112

first Olympic games

Question 113

650 B.C.

Answer 113

Lycurgus

Question 114

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

Answer 114

Lycurgus

Question 115

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 115

Lycurgus

Question 116

Rule by the few.

Answer 116

oligarchy

Question 117

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 117

Helots

Question 118

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 118

Peloponnesus

Question 119

1200 B.C.

Answer 119

Trojan War