Lesson 33: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards
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220-196 B.C.
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first Roman victories in Greece
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146 B.C.
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Greece becomes a Roman province
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The Romans sacked and burned this Greek city.
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Corinth
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The two countries that conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War.
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Macedonia and Rome
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The three Greek cities that tried to rule all of Greece.
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Athens, Sparta, Thebes
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The world’s first and greatest teachers in the natural order.
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Greeks
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222 B.C.
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defeat of Sparta by Achaean League
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Restored the glory of Sparta 600 years after Lycurgus.
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Cleomenes III
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League of Greek city-states that conquered Sparta.
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Archaean League
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279 B.C.
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Pyrrhus defeats Romans at Asculum
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King from Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander.
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Pyrrhus
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Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans
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Archimedes
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Victory won with unacceptable losses.
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pyrrhic victory
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The southern part of Italy was called this.
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Magna Graecia
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This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome.
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Carthage
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Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander.
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Alexandria, Egypt
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This city had the greatest library in the ancient world.
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Alexandria
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Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt
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Ptolemy
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He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek.
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Ptolemy Philadelphus
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The Greek Translation of the Bible, translated by 70 scholars in 70 days.
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Septuagint
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Dynasty of Greek ruler sin Egypt.
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Ptolemy
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Last of the Ptolemy line.
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Cleopatra
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Teh country that invented the alphabet and was great city of commerce.
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Phoenicia
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The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
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Suez Canal
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Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion.
Baal worship
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He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.
Diogenes
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Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.
Epicureanism
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Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.
Aristotle
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Aristotle's most famous pupil.
Alexander
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He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name.
Zeno
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Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling.
Stoicism
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336 B.C.
death of Philip
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323 B.C.
death of Alexander
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He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens.
Demosthenes
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Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.
Demosthenes
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He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.
Demosthenes
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A bitter denunciation of a man or party.
Philippic
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He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians.
Demosthenes
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He could recite the "Illiad" from beginning to end.
Alexander
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King of Persia defeated by Alexander.
Darius III
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He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer.
Alexander
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The name of Alexander's horse.
Bucephalus
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He cut the Gordian knot.
Alexander
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Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground.
Thebes
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Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.
Philip of Macedonia
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Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.
phalanx
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371 B.C.
battle of Leuctra
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362 B.C.
battle of Mantinea
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Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta
Epaminondas and Pelopidas
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401 B.C.
battle of Cunaxa
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399 B.C.
trial and death of Socrates
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Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.
Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus
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Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000.
Anabasis
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Persian king during the March of the 10,000.
Artaxerxes
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Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia.
Xenophon
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Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother's throne.
Cyrus
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He drank hemlock cheerfully.
Socrates
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The love of wisdom.
philosphy
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The ugliest person in all of Greece.
Socrates
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Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.
Plato
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Socrates' question-and-answer method of teaching.
Socratic Method
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Plato's open-air school at Athens.
the Academy
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431-404 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
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430 B.C.
plague at Athens
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Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.
Lysander
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He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.
Lysander
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Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.
Thirty Tyrants
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Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.
Alcibiades
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How the Greeks dated time.
Olympic Games
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The Olympic Games were held here.
Elis
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443-429 B.C.
Pericles dominates Athenian politics
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Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.
Peloponnesian War
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He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Pericles
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He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.
Herodotus
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Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides
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The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.
Pericles
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He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.
Pericles
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Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.
Attica
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The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
Parthenon
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The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.
Phidias
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468 B.C.
Cimon defeats Persians
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He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.
Cimon
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The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.
Cimon
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The port city of Athens.
Piraeus
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Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.
Long Walls
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The two legs of Greece.
Athens and Sparta
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Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.
Aeschylus and Sophocles
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Greek comic playwright.
Aristophanes
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479 B.C.
battle of Plataea
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This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.
Aristides
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Last land battle of the Persian Wars.
Plataea
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Word that means "to banish" and "earthenware tablet."
ostracism
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Persian general during the Persian Wars.
Mardonius
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Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea
Pausanias
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Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.
Mycale
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He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.
Themistocles
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The wooden walls of Athens.
war ships
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480 B.C.
battles of Thermopylae, Salamis
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The hero of Thermopylae.
Leonidas
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Elite Spartan military force.
Spartan 300
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He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.
Xerxes
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The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.
Hellespont
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490 B.C.
battle of Marathon
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King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.
Darius
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The hero of Marathon.
Miltiades
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He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians
Phidippides
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560 B.C.
coup of Pisistratus
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527 B.C.
death of Pisistratus
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Rule by magistrates or councils.
republic
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Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.
Pisistratus
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The Acropolis was in this city.
Athens
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The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis
olive tree
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The citadel of Athens.
Acropolis
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The only state in Greece that never became a republic.
Sparta
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624 B.C.
Draco's code
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594 B.C.
Solon's reforms
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It was said that this Athenian's laws were written in blood.
Draco
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The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.
Solon
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Rule by the many.
democracy
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Rich king of Lydia.
Croesus
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776 B.C.
first Olympic games
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650 B.C.
Lycurgus
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He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.
Lycurgus
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His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.
Lycurgus
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Rule by the few.
oligarchy
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The slaves of the Spartans.
Helots
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The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand
Peloponnesus
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1200 B.C.
Trojan War
