100 Drill Questions for Greek History Flashcards
He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.
Lycurgus
His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.
Lycurgus
It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.
Draco
The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.
Solon
Rule by the few.
oligarchy
Rule by the many.
democracy
Rule by magistrates or counsels.
republic
Rich king of Lydia
Croesus
Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.
Pisistratus
King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.
Darius
The hero of Marathon.
Miltiades
He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians.
Pheidipedes
The hero of Thermopylae.
Leonidas
Elite Spartan military force
Spartan 300
The slaves of the Spartans
helots
He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.
Xerxes
He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.
Themistocles
The wooden walls of Athens.
war ships
This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.
Aristides
Five famous battles of the Persian Wars.
Marathon Thermopylae Salamis Plataea Mycale
Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Greek comic playwright
Aristophanes
Last land battle of the Persian Wars.
Plataea
He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.
Cimon
Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.
Darius
Xerxes
Cyrus
Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet”.
ostracism
Persian general during the Persian Wars.
Mardonius
Spartan general who defeated the Persians at Plataea.
Pausanias
Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.
Mycale
The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.
Cimon
The port city of Athens
Piraeus
Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.
Long Walls
The two legs of Greece
Athens
Sparta
Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire
Peloponnesian War
He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble
Pericles
He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History
Herodotus
Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
The greatest statesman in the history of Greece
Pericles
Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop
Alcibiades
He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens
Pericles
How the Greeks dated time.
Olympic Games
Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War who captured Athens.
Lysander
He pulled down the long walls to the sound of music
Lysander
Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens
Thirty Tyrants
He drank hemlock cheerfully
Socrates
The love of wisdom
philosophy
The ugliest person in all Greece
Socrates
The Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates
Plato
Socrates’ question and answer method of teaching
Socratic Method
Plato’s open-air school at Athens
the Academy
Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000
Anabasis
Persian king during the March of the 10,000
Artaxerxes
Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia
Xenophon
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)
Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta
Epaminondas
Pelopidas
Father of Alexander who conquered Greece
Philip of Macedonia
He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens
Demosthenes
Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters
phalanx
He could recite the Iliad from beginning to end
Alexander
Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth
Demosthenes
King of Persia defeated by Alexander
Darius III
He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer
Alexander
The name of Alexander’s horse
Bucephalus
He copied the famous speeches of Thucydides eight times
Demosthenes
Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander
Alexandria, Egypt
He cut to Gordian knot
Alexander
This city had the greatest library in the ancient world
Alexandria
Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt
Philadelphus Ptolemy
Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground
Thebes
He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek
Ptolemy
The Greek translation of the Bible; translated by 70 scholars in 70 days
Septuagint
He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man
Diogenes
A bitter denunciation of a man or party
Philippic
He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians
Demosthenes
Dynasty of Greek rulers in Egypt
Ptolemy
Prince of Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander
Pyrrhus
The last of the Ptolemy line
Cleopatra
Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans
Archimedes
He restored the glory of Sparta 600 years after Lycurgus
Cleomenes III
League of Greek city-states that conquered Sparta
Aechean League
Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.
Epicureanism
Aristotle’s most famous pupil
Alexander
Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom
Aristotle
He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name
Zeno
Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling
Stoicism
Victory won with unacceptable losses.
Pyrrhic Victory
The Romans sacked and burned this Greek city
Corinth
The two countries that conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War
Macedonia
Rome
The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand
Peloponnesus
Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece
Attica
The Acropolis was in this city
Athens
The three Greek cities who tried to rule all of Greece
Athens
Sparta
Thebes
The country that invented the alphabet and was a great city of commerce
Phoenicia
The southern part of Italy was called this
Magna Graecia
The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
Parthenon
The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia
Hellespont
The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
Suez Canal
The Olympic games were held here
Elis
The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena
Phidias
The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis
olive tree
The only state in Greece that never became a republic
Sparta
The citadel of Athens
Acropolis
This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome
Carthage
Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion
Baal worship
The world’s first and greatest teachers in the natural order
Greeks
