Lessons 16-20 Review

Question 1

431-404 BC; war between Athens and Sparta that destroyed the Athenian empire

Answer 1

Peloponnesian war

Question 2

“We fight for all.”

Answer 2

the Greeks at Salamis

Question 3

Identify the starred location on the map.

Answer 3

Corinth

Question 4

king of Sparta; hero of Thermopylae

Answer 4

Leonidas

Question 5

Athenian magistrate and general; rival of Themistocles; had a reputation for fairness

Answer 5

Aristides

Question 6

to beat with a small whip as punishment

Answer 6

scourge

Question 7

nephew of Leonidas; defeated Mardonius at Plataea

Answer 7

Pausanias

Question 8

Identify the starred location on the map.

Answer 8

Salamis

Question 9

leader of Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 9

Pericles

Question 10

last land battle fought between Greeks and Persians in 479 BC (fought on same day as the battle of Mycale)

Answer 10

battle of Plataea

Question 11

Greek historian; wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 11

Thucydides

Question 12

Greek dramatist

Answer 12

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 13

highly infectious, usually fatal epidemic disease

Answer 13

plague

Question 14

“I have never seen him but I am tired of hearing him called ‘the Just.’”

Answer 14

Athenian to Aristides

Question 15

to lay waste; to destroy; to make unfit for habitation

Answer 15

desolate

Question 16

Identify the starred location on the map.

Answer 16

Pass of Thermopylae

Question 17

walls connecting Athens with the port of Piraeus

Answer 17

Long Walls

Question 18

“So much the better, we shall fight in the shade.”

Answer 18

Spartan soldier at Thermopylae

Question 19

Greek sculptor; made Parthenon statuary

Answer 19

Phidias

Question 20

“Because Cimon is already with me.”

Answer 20

oracle of Zeus

Question 21

last sea battle between the Greeks and the Persians

Answer 21

battle of Mycale

Question 22

“What you praise in my life has been due to fortune. I deserve no credit for it.”

Answer 22

Pericles

Question 23

“Athens and Sparta are the two legs of Greece.”

Answer 23

Cimon

Question 24

son of Miltiades

Answer 24

Cimon

Question 25

naval battle where the Athenians defeated the Persians

Answer 25

battle of Salamis

Question 26

Greek comic playwright

Answer 26

Aristophanes

Question 27

narrow passage of water between two shores

Answer 27

strait

Question 28

"That of which I am proudest is that no Athenian ever wore mourning because of anything done by me."

Answer 28

Pericles

Question 29

to disable or disfigure

Answer 29

maim

Question 30

temple and treasury on the Acropolis of Athens

Answer 30

Parthenon

Question 31

to expel and send away as punishment

Answer 31

banish

Question 32

realms; territories ruled by someone

Answer 32

dominions

Question 33

site of the heroic stand of Leonidas' 4000, men against the army of Xerxes in 480 BC

Answer 33

Pass of Thermopylae

Question 34

Identify the starred location on the map.

Answer 34

Delphi

Question 35

Greek historian; "father of history"; wrote a history of the Persian War

Answer 35

Herodotus

Question 36

king of Persia; succeeded Darius I, his father

Answer 36

Xerxes

Question 37

to climb in stages or on a ladder

Answer 37

scale

Question 38

main oracle of the Athenian domain

Answer 38

oracle of Delphi

Question 39

Athenian statesman and soldier; advised the Athenians to build more ships

Answer 39

Themistocles

Question 40

strip of land connecting two larger masses of land

Answer 40

Ishmus

Question 41

temporary banishment by popular vote

Answer 41

ostracism

Question 42

priestess of the oracle

Answer 42

Pythia

Question 43

Persian general; left in command of the Persian forces in Thessaly after Xerxes' retreat

Answer 43

Mardonius