Peloponnesian Wars Quiz

Question 1

Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis

Answer 1

480

Question 2

Battle of Plataea

Answer 2

479; Greeks win

Question 3

Mardonis

Answer 3

Xerxes’ son- in- law; dies at the Battle of Plataea

Question 4

Pausanias

Answer 4

nephew of Leonidas

Question 5

Battle of Mycale

Answer 5

479; Greeks defeat Persians

Question 6

End of Persian War

Answer 6

479

Question 7

Thirty Years Peace

Answer 7

Lasted 14 years; 446

Question 8

War begins over Cocyra in Corinth (Battle of Sybota)

Answer 8

435

Question 9

Delian League (Athens) founded

Answer 9

477

Question 10

Themistocles ostracized

Answer 10

472-471

Question 11

Pelopponnesian League (Sparta) founded

Answer 11

477

Question 12

Pericles in Athens

Answer 12

451-429

Question 13

Five Years truce between Sparta and Athens

Answer 13

452

Question 14

More an Athenian Empire than a Delian League

Answer 14

460

Question 15

Athenian treasury moved from Delos to Athens

Answer 15

454

Question 16

Unknown plague in Athens

Answer 16

430

Question 17

Pericles dies

Answer 17

429

Question 18

Alcibiades: Professional traitor

Answer 18

415 (betrayed Sparta, Athens, and Persia)

Question 19

Disaster at Syracuse- Stalemate for Sparta

Answer 19

413

Question 20

Athenian allies begin a revolt

Answer 20

412

Question 21

Naval battle between the Delian League; Peloponnesian League to take place

Answer 21

407

Question 22

Persians unexpectedly joined Sparta and allies

Answer 22

(has no date on paper; just know)

Question 23

Athens surrenders; rule of The Thirty

Answer 23

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