Persian Wars

Question 1

Who fought in the Battle of the Marathon?

Answer 1

Persia vs. Athens

Question 2

Which Greek city-state was in charge of the Delian League?

Answer 2

Athens

Question 3

What was the purpose of the Delian League?

Answer 3

To protect the Greek city-states in case the Persians returned after the Persian War

Question 4

What happened to the Delian League?

Answer 4

Athens started to get bossy which made the other city-states mad. It led to a civil war called the Peloponnesian war between Athens and the other Greek city-states.

Question 5

What was the name of the Athenian General that fought in the Battle of Salamis?

Answer 5

Themistocles

Question 6

Who ended up winning the Persian Wars?

Answer 6

Greece

Question 7

Who fought in the battle of Thermopylae?

Answer 7

Persia vs. Sparta

Question 8

Who fought in the battle of Salamis?

Answer 8

Persia vs. Other Greek city-states

Question 9

What was the only battle of the Persian Wars that Persia won?

Answer 9

Battle of Thermopylae

Question 10

Greece only lost one battle in the Persian Wars.

Answer 10

This is true

Question 11

What Athenian leader fought in the Battle of Marathon?

Answer 11

Militades

Question 12

Was King Darius’s child a boy or a girl?

Answer 12

Boy

Question 13

What was King Darius’s son’s name?

Answer 13

Xerxes

Question 14

Which Persian King fought in the Battle of the Marathon?

Answer 14

King Darius

Question 15

What Persian king fought in both the Battle of Thermopylae and Salamis?

Answer 15

King Xerxes

Question 16

What did King Cyrus do to avoid revolts by the people he conquered?

Answer 16

He treated them fairly.

Question 17

What was the first super highway that went across the Persian Empire?

Answer 17

The Royal Road

Question 18

Which religion did the ancient Persians follow?

Answer 18

Zoroastrianism

Question 19

How many gods did Zoroastrianism believe in?

Answer 19

One

Question 20

What was the Persian Empire broken into to manage it’s large population?

Answer 20

Satraps (Governors)

Question 21

What was the final battle of the Persian Wars?

Answer 21

The battle of Platea

Question 22

Which Persian Wars battle was fought at sea?

Answer 22

The battle of Salamis

Question 23

Which Persian Wars battle was fought first?

Answer 23

The battle of the Marathon

Question 24

There were 500 Brave Spartans

Answer 24

This is false

Question 25

Who wrote about the history of the Persian Wars?

Answer 25

Herodotus

Question 26

Who was the first King of Persia?

Answer 26

King Cyrus

Question 27

What was the formation used by Greek soldiers to enter battle?

Answer 27

Phalanx

Question 28

Which Greek king died heroically at the Battle of Thermopylae?

Answer 28

King Leonidas

Question 29

What Spartan King fought in the Battle of Thermopylae?

Answer 29

King Leonidas

Question 30

Where did the Battle of Marathon take place?

Answer 30

Mainland Greece on a plain north of Athens

Question 31

Where did the Battle of Thermopylae take place?

Answer 31

Mainland Greece on a mountain pass north of Athens

Question 32

How did the Battle of Thermopylae start?

Answer 32

A Greek traitor brought Persians to attack from the rear

Question 33

In the Battle of Salamis, the Greeks lost...

Answer 33

40 ships compared to Persia's 300 ships

Question 34

Who won the Battle of Salamis?

Answer 34

Athens + the Greek city-states

Question 35

In the Battle of Thermopylae, who stayed to fight the Persians while Athens was evacuated?

Answer 35

300 Spartan soldiers

Question 36

After the Battle of Marathon, a messenger ran 26.2 miles back to Athens and yelled...

Answer 36

Nike (Victory)

Question 37

How did the Battle of Thermopylae end?

Answer 37

Athens is destroyed and Leonidas dies

Question 38

Greece advantage over the Persians were

Answer 38

a better strategy

Question 39

Famous runner who ran from Athens to Sparta then back. He is most famous for his 25 mile run from marathon to Athens where he collapsed and died from extreme exhaustion

Answer 39

Pheidippides

Question 40

The Persians expanded their Empire by

Answer 40

conquering its neighbors

Question 41

Fortune tellers, the givers of prophecy who communicated with the gods...Sparta received a message saying this was not the right time for a war.

Answer 41

Oracle

Question 42

One of two Spartan kings. He led 300 of his personal body guards to fight the Persians at Thermopylae.

Answer 42

King Leonidas

Question 43

Why did the Greeks care about Ionia?

Answer 43

The Greeks had established wealthy settlements there

Question 44

Why did King Darius ask for presents of earth and water

Answer 44

Because this would mean that the Greeks had accepted Persian rule.

Question 45

What was the outcome of the Ionian revolt?

Answer 45

The Persian army punished the Ionians

Question 46

Narrow water passage connecting the Aegean and Black Seas. It was here that Xerxes had his soldiers whip the sea after Poseidon destroyed his pontoon bridge (floating bridge made of ships).

Answer 46

Hellespont

Question 47

Location of a great naval battle, where the united Greek forces defeated the Persians. Between the narrow shores the smaller, lighter ships of the Greeks were able to out maneuver the larger, heavier Persian ships

Answer 47

Salamis