100 Drill Questions for Greek History Flashcards
1
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He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.
A
Lycurgus
2
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His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.
A
Lycurgus
3
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It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.
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Draco
4
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The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.
A
Solon
5
Q
Rule by the few.
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oligarchy
6
Q
Rule by the many.
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democracy
7
Q
Rule by magistrates or counsels.
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republic
8
Q
Rich king of Lydia
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Croesus
9
Q
Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.
A
Pisistratus
10
Q
King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.
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Darius
11
Q
The hero of Marathon.
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Miltiades
12
Q
He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians.
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Pheidipedes
13
Q
The hero of Thermopylae.
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Leonidas
14
Q
Elite Spartan military force
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Spartan 300
15
Q
The slaves of the Spartans
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helots
16
Q
He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.
A
Xerxes
17
Q
He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.
A
Themistocles
18
Q
The wooden walls of Athens.
A
war ships
19
Q
This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.
A
Aristides
20
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Five famous battles of the Persian Wars.
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Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Plataea Mycale
21
Q
Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.
A
Aeschylus
Sophocles
22
Q
Greek comic playwright
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Aristophanes
23
Q
Last land battle of the Persian Wars.
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Plataea
24
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He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.
A
Cimon
25
Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.
Darius
Xerxes
Cyrus
26
Word that means "to banish" and "earthenware tablet".
ostracism
27
Persian general during the Persian Wars.
Mardonius
28
Spartan general who defeated the Persians at Plataea.
Pausanias
29
Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.
Mycale
30
The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.
Cimon
31
The port city of Athens
Piraeus
32
Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.
Long Walls
33
The two legs of Greece
Athens
| Sparta
34
Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire
Peloponnesian War
35
He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble
Pericles
36
He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History
Herodotus
37
Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
38
The greatest statesman in the history of Greece
Pericles
39
Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop
Alcibiades
40
He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens
Pericles
41
How the Greeks dated time.
Olympic Games
42
Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War who captured Athens.
Lysander
43
He pulled down the long walls to the sound of music
Lysander
44
Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens
Thirty Tyrants
45
He drank hemlock cheerfully
Socrates
46
The love of wisdom
philosophy
47
The ugliest person in all Greece
Socrates
48
The Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates
Plato
49
Socrates' question and answer method of teaching
Socratic Method
50
Plato's open-air school at Athens
the Academy
51
Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000
Anabasis
52
Persian king during the March of the 10,000
Artaxerxes
53
Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia
Xenophon
54
Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother's throne (and hired the 10,000 to help him)
Cyrus (not the Cyrus in the Bible)
55
Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta
Epaminondas
| Pelopidas
56
Father of Alexander who conquered Greece
Philip of Macedonia
57
He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens
Demosthenes
58
Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters
phalanx
59
He could recite the Iliad from beginning to end
Alexander
60
Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth
Demosthenes
61
King of Persia defeated by Alexander
Darius III
62
He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer
Alexander
63
The name of Alexander's horse
Bucephalus
64
He copied the famous speeches of Thucydides eight times
Demosthenes
65
Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander
Alexandria, Egypt
66
He cut to Gordian knot
Alexander
67
This city had the greatest library in the ancient world
Alexandria
68
Alexander's general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt
Philadelphus Ptolemy
69
Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground
Thebes
70
He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek
Ptolemy
71
The Greek translation of the Bible; translated by 70 scholars in 70 days
Septuagint
72
He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man
Diogenes
73
A bitter denunciation of a man or party
Philippic
74
He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians
Demosthenes
75
Dynasty of Greek rulers in Egypt
Ptolemy
76
Prince of Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander
Pyrrhus
77
The last of the Ptolemy line
Cleopatra
78
Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans
Archimedes
79
He restored the glory of Sparta 600 years after Lycurgus
Cleomenes III
80
League of Greek city-states that conquered Sparta
Aechean League
81
Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.
Epicureanism
82
Aristotle's most famous pupil
Alexander
83
Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom
Aristotle
84
He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name
Zeno
85
Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling
Stoicism
86
Victory won with unacceptable losses.
Pyrrhic Victory
87
The Romans sacked and burned this Greek city
Corinth
88
The two countries that conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War
Macedonia
| Rome
89
The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand
Peloponnesus
90
Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece
Attica
91
The Acropolis was in this city
Athens
92
The three Greek cities who tried to rule all of Greece
Athens
Sparta
Thebes
93
The country that invented the alphabet and was a great city of commerce
Phoenicia
94
The southern part of Italy was called this
Magna Graecia
95
The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
Parthenon
96
The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia
Hellespont
97
The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
Suez Canal
98
The Olympic games were held here
Elis
99
The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena
Phidias
100
The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis
olive tree
101
The only state in Greece that never became a republic
Sparta
102
The citadel of Athens
Acropolis
103
This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome
Carthage
104
Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion
Baal worship
105
The world's first and greatest teachers in the natural order
Greeks
