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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

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2
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His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

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Lycurgus

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3
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It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.

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Draco

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4
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The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.

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Solon

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5
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Rule by the few.

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oligarchy

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6
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Rule by the many.

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democracy

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7
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Rule by magistrates or counsels.

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republic

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8
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Rich king of Lydia

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Croesus

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9
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Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.

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Pisistratus

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10
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King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

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Darius

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11
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The hero of Marathon.

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Miltiades

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12
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He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians.

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Pheidipedes

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13
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The hero of Thermopylae.

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Leonidas

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14
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Elite Spartan military force

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Spartan 300

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15
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The slaves of the Spartans

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helots

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16
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He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.

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Xerxes

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17
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He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.

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Themistocles

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18
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The wooden walls of Athens.

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war ships

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19
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This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

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Aristides

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20
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Five famous battles of the Persian Wars.

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Marathon
Thermopylae
Salamis
Plataea
Mycale
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21
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Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

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Aeschylus

Sophocles

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22
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Greek comic playwright

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Aristophanes

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23
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Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

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Plataea

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24
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He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.

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Cimon

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25
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Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.

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Darius
Xerxes
Cyrus

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26
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Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet”.

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ostracism

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27
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Persian general during the Persian Wars.

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Mardonius

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28
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Spartan general who defeated the Persians at Plataea.

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Pausanias

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29
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Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

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Mycale

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30
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The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.

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Cimon

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31
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The port city of Athens

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Piraeus

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32
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Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

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Long Walls

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33
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The two legs of Greece

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Athens

Sparta

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34
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Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire

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Peloponnesian War

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35
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He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble

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Pericles

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36
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He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History

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Herodotus

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37
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Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War

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Thucydides

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38
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The greatest statesman in the history of Greece

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Pericles

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39
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Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop

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Alcibiades

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40
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He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens

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Pericles

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41
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How the Greeks dated time.

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Olympic Games

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42
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Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War who captured Athens.

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Lysander

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43
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He pulled down the long walls to the sound of music

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Lysander

44
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Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens

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Thirty Tyrants

45
Q

He drank hemlock cheerfully

A

Socrates

46
Q

The love of wisdom

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philosophy

47
Q

The ugliest person in all Greece

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Socrates

48
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The Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates

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Plato

49
Q

Socrates’ question and answer method of teaching

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Socratic Method

50
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Plato’s open-air school at Athens

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the Academy

51
Q

Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000

A

Anabasis

52
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Persian king during the March of the 10,000

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Artaxerxes

53
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Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia

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Xenophon

54
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Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother’s throne (and hired the 10,000 to help him)

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Cyrus (not the Cyrus in the Bible)

55
Q

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

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Epaminondas

Pelopidas

56
Q

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece

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Philip of Macedonia

57
Q

He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens

A

Demosthenes

58
Q

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters

A

phalanx

59
Q

He could recite the Iliad from beginning to end

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Alexander

60
Q

Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth

A

Demosthenes

61
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King of Persia defeated by Alexander

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Darius III

62
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He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer

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Alexander

63
Q

The name of Alexander’s horse

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Bucephalus

64
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He copied the famous speeches of Thucydides eight times

A

Demosthenes

65
Q

Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander

A

Alexandria, Egypt

66
Q

He cut to Gordian knot

A

Alexander

67
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This city had the greatest library in the ancient world

A

Alexandria

68
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Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt

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Philadelphus Ptolemy

69
Q

Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground

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Thebes

70
Q

He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek

A

Ptolemy

71
Q

The Greek translation of the Bible; translated by 70 scholars in 70 days

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Septuagint

72
Q

He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man

A

Diogenes

73
Q

A bitter denunciation of a man or party

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Philippic

74
Q

He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians

A

Demosthenes

75
Q

Dynasty of Greek rulers in Egypt

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Ptolemy

76
Q

Prince of Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander

A

Pyrrhus

77
Q

The last of the Ptolemy line

A

Cleopatra

78
Q

Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans

A

Archimedes

79
Q

He restored the glory of Sparta 600 years after Lycurgus

A

Cleomenes III

80
Q

League of Greek city-states that conquered Sparta

A

Aechean League

81
Q

Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.

A

Epicureanism

82
Q

Aristotle’s most famous pupil

A

Alexander

83
Q

Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom

A

Aristotle

84
Q

He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name

A

Zeno

85
Q

Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling

A

Stoicism

86
Q

Victory won with unacceptable losses.

A

Pyrrhic Victory

87
Q

The Romans sacked and burned this Greek city

A

Corinth

88
Q

The two countries that conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War

A

Macedonia

Rome

89
Q

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

A

Peloponnesus

90
Q

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece

A

Attica

91
Q

The Acropolis was in this city

A

Athens

92
Q

The three Greek cities who tried to rule all of Greece

A

Athens
Sparta
Thebes

93
Q

The country that invented the alphabet and was a great city of commerce

A

Phoenicia

94
Q

The southern part of Italy was called this

A

Magna Graecia

95
Q

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

A

Parthenon

96
Q

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia

A

Hellespont

97
Q

The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea

A

Suez Canal

98
Q

The Olympic games were held here

A

Elis

99
Q

The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena

A

Phidias

100
Q

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

A

olive tree

101
Q

The only state in Greece that never became a republic

A

Sparta

102
Q

The citadel of Athens

A

Acropolis

103
Q

This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome

A

Carthage

104
Q

Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion

A

Baal worship

105
Q

The world’s first and greatest teachers in the natural order

A

Greeks

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