past questions

Question 1

after the death of solomon, first 2 kings of divided kingdom of Judah and Israel

Answer 1

rehoboam and jeroboam

Question 2

king of israel forced to pay tribute to Assyrian King shalmanesar III

Answer 2

Jehu

Question 3

Son of Esarhaddon appointed as King of Babylonia who rose against assyria and was eventually crushed by his own brother assurbanipal

Answer 3

Shamash-shum-ukin

Question 4

Chaldean Ruler of Babylonia in the late 8th century

Answer 4

Marduk-apla-iddina

Question 5

Babylonian King who took Jerusalem at the beginning of the 6th century and who kept the city of Tyre under siege for 13 years

Answer 5

Nebuchadnezzar II

Question 6

Median King who entered a treaty with nabopolassar to fight the assyrians together

Answer 6

cyaxares

Question 7

Last king of Babylon before Cyrus II conquered it in 539

Answer 7

nabonidus

Question 8

achaemenid king whose navy and infantry were defeated at salamis(480) and Plataea (479) respectively

Answer 8

Xerxes

Question 9

names of 3 egyptian kings of Dynasty IV for whome the pyramids of Giza were built

Answer 9

Khufu, Khafre, Mankaure

Question 10

Foreign Group that ruled Egypt during the second intermediate period (Dynasty XV)

Answer 10

Hyksos

Question 11

Woman who ruled egypt during dynasty XII, in the Middle Kingdom

Answer 11

Sobeknefru

Question 12

woman who ruled egypt during dynasty XVIII in the New Kingdom

Answer 12

Hatshepsut

Question 13

Name of Akhenaten’s wife

Answer 13

Nefertari

Question 14

site in a mining area in the sinai, at which a strong northwest semitic presence can be detected (graffitti included) during the middle kingdom

Answer 14

Serabit el-Khadim

Question 15

Famous Egyptian city inhabited by craftsmen and artists during the New Kingdom, at which a number of administrative & economic ostraca and papyri have been found

Answer 15

deir el-Medina

Question 16

Site on the island of Thera, in the Cyclades famous for it’s frescoes dating to the Minoan Period

Answer 16

Akrotiri

Question 17

German excavator who found Troy and dug at Mycenae

Answer 17

Schliemann

Question 18

English archaeologist who excavated Knossos and gave its name to the Minoan Period

Answer 18

Evans

Question 19

Script in which the first text in the Greek language are preserved

Answer 19

Linear B

Question 20

Three main cities in Continental Greece during the mycenaen period

Answer 20

mycenae, pylos, & Thebes

Question 21

Spartan assembly that consisted of 30 elders, including 2 kings

Answer 21

gerousia

Question 22

term used to refer to the serfs of the spartan state (e.g. the population of Messenia)

Answer 22

helots

Question 23

athenian politician under whose aegis the parthenon was built

Answer 23

Pericles

Question 24

Spartan general who invaded Attica in 431, during the first phase of the Peloponnnesian War

Answer 24

Archidamus

Question 25

Athenian Politician who proposed the annihilate the whole male pop. of Mytilene (in Lesbos) after their revolt in 428

Answer 25

Cleon

Question 26

Sicilian City that was a target of a disastrous Athenian Naval Expedition in 415-413

Answer 26

Syracuse

Question 27

Persian king against whom his brother Cyrus organized the expedition of the so-called "Ten Thousand"

Answer 27

Artaxerxes II

Question 28

Greek historian who wrote a famous account of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 28

Thucydides

Question 29

Greek historian who participated in and then wrote about the expedition of the so-called "Ten Thousand" organized by Cyrus

Answer 29

Xenophon

Question 30

Final Battle of the Peloponnesian war in which the Athenian fleet was destroyed in 405

Answer 30

Aegospotami

Question 31

Battle in which Philip II of Macedonia defeated an alliance of theban and athenian forces

Answer 31

Chareonea

Question 32

Orator who advocated the Athenian opposition against Philip II of Macedonia-

Answer 32

Demostenes

Question 33

Name of the Spear used by the Macedonian Phalanx formation

Answer 33

sarissa

Question 34

Theban general who commande the Boeotian League at battles Leuctra (371) and Mantinaea (362) and put an end to spartan supremacy in Greece

Answer 34

Epaminondas

Question 35

League created by Philip II of Macedonia which established a federation of Greek States

Answer 35

LEague of Corinth

Question 36

Before the final battle of Gaugamela (331) this is the battle in 333 where Alexander defeated Darius III and began his final assault on the Achaemenid Empire

Answer 36

Issus

Question 37

Dynast of Macedonian Origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander's death up to the Roman conquest

Answer 37

Ptolemaic dynasty

Question 38

Tell- Ad-daba'a

Answer 38

Avaris

Question 39

Croessus

Answer 39

Lydia

Question 40

Achilles

Answer 40

Patroclus

Question 41

Zeus

Answer 41

Ganymede

Question 42

Hector

Answer 42

Andromache

Question 43

Thera

Answer 43

Santorini

Question 44

Lycrugus

Answer 44

Sparta

Question 45

Pindar

Answer 45

epinikion