ANCIENT GREEKS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Question 1

When was the first Olympic games

Answer 1

776 BC

Question 2

When was the Battle of Marathon

Answer 2

490 BC

Question 3

When was The Battle at the Pass of Thermopylae

Answer 3

4 80 BC

Question 4

When was the Beginning of the Age of Pericles

Answer 4

448 BC

Question 5

When was the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 5

431 BC

Question 6

When was the End of the Peloponnesian War

Answer 6

404 BC

Question 7

When did Alexander the Great become king of Macedonia

Answer 7

334 BC

Question 8

When did Alexander Die

Answer 8

323 BC

Question 9

“I showed, not by mere words but by my actions that I did not care a straw for death….”

Answer 9

Socrates

Question 10

“There is no sweeter solace in life for human ills than craftsmanship; for the mind…”

Answer 10

Amphis

Question 11

” If you have exercised yourself in a manner worthy of the Olympic festival, if you have been guilty of no slothful or ignobale act….”

Answer 11

Olympic Motto

Question 12

“He that is not flogged cannot be taught”

Answer 12

Athenian Proverb

Question 13

“For no Athenian through my means ever wore mourning”

Answer 13

Pericles

Question 14

“I consider the whole of thy teaser and the whole of thy land to be mine”

Answer 14

Alexander the Great

Question 15

Confederacy of Delos

Answer 15

Group of cities joined to free all Greeks

Question 16

The Great sea surrounding Greece

Answer 16

Mediterranean sea

Question 17

Author of the Iliad and Odyssey

Answer 17

Homer

Question 18

Marketplace in Ancient Athens

Answer 18

Agora

Question 19

Dwelling place of the gods

Answer 19

Mt. Olympus

Question 20

Battle between the Athenians and Persian army

Answer 20

Battle of Salamis ASK

Or battle of Plataea

Question 21

Oldest of Greek historians

Answer 21

Herodotus

Question 22

Greatest of third century Greek Scientists

Answer 22

Archimedes

Question 23

The great lawgiver of Sparta

Answer 23

Lycurgus

Question 24

The most famous gymnasium in ancient Athens

Answer 24

The Academy

Question 25

Son of Deucalion and Pyrrah

Answer 25

Hellen

Question 26

Law in Athens banishing a citizen for 10 years

Answer 26

Ostracism

Question 27

Part of Persian army always containing 10,00 men

Answer 27

The Immortals

Question 28

Wife of Zeus

Answer 28

Hera

Question 29

Famous museum of Alexandria

Answer 29

Temple of the Muses

Question 30

Poem about the Trojan War

Answer 30

Illiad

Question 31

Poem describing the travels of Odysseus after the fall of Troy

Answer 31

The Odyssey

Question 32

Athenian general who also served Sparta and Persia

Answer 32

Alcibiades

Question 33

Greek Leaders who seized power to rule alone

Answer 33

tyrants

Question 34

Inscription containing the deeds of Thutmose 3

Answer 34

Celopatras Needle

Question 35

Creator of the Great statue of Zeus

Answer 35

Phedias

Question 36

Another name for the land of ancient greece

Answer 36

Hellas

Question 37

Largest island in the Aegean Sea

Answer 37

Crete

Question 38

Wise man and archon of Ancient greeks

Answer 38

Solon

Question 39

Created the race of men and populated Greece

Answer 39

Deucalion

Question 40

Most famous of all Greek colonies

Answer 40

ionia

Question 41

Father of gods and men

Answer 41

Zeus

Question 42

Road from Athens to to Eleusis

Answer 42

Sacred way

Question 43

Slaves of the Spartans

Answer 43

Helots

Question 44

Athletic contests at Coring in honor of Poseidon

Answer 44

Isthmian games

Question 45

Athletic contests at Delphi in honor of Apollo

Answer 45

Pythian Games

Question 46

Athletic contest at olympia in honor of zeus

Answer 46

Olympic games

Question 47

Part of the mediterranean sea between greece and Asia Minor

Answer 47

Aegean Sea

Question 48

Battle where the Athenians first defeated the Persians

Answer 48

Battle of Marathon

Question 49

Group of spartans who ruled Athens

Answer 49

The thirty

Question 50

Battle where 300 Spartans fought the Persian Army

Answer 50

Pass of Thermopylae

Question 51

Final naval battle won by Athenians Against the Persians

Answer 51

Battle of Salamis

Question 52

Period in Greek history from Alexander until the Roman Empire

Answer 52

Hellenistic Age

Question 53

Peace treaty organized by Artaxerxes between Sparta and Athens

Answer 53

King's peace

Question 54

The war between Athens and Sparta

Answer 54

Peloponnesian war

Question 55

Journey of Athenian troops back to Greece from Persia

Answer 55

March of the 10,000

Question 56

First Peace treaty between Sparta and Athens

Answer 56

Peace of Nicias

Question 57

Period in Greek history after the Homeric age

Answer 57

Historic Greece

Question 58

When did Philip become king of macedonia

Answer 58

359 BC

Question 59

What was the order of Philosophers timewise in ancient greeks

Answer 59

Socrates Plato Aristotle Archimedes

Question 60

It was the lot of Hellas to have its season far more fairly tempered than other lands

Answer 60

Herodotus

Question 61

“He is a law-court lover; no man like him. Judging is what he dotes on, and he weeps unless he sits on the front bench of all.”

Answer 61

Aristophanes

Question 62

"Athens is Saved!'

Answer 62

Pheidippides

Question 63

"The gods, O king, have given the Greeks all other gifts in moderate degree..."

Answer 63

Solon

Question 64

The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick.

Answer 64

Lycurgus

Question 65

Who led the charge on the Spartan Side against the Persians at the pass of thermopylae

Answer 65

King Leonidas

Question 66

The walls are made of men instead bricks

Answer 66

Lycurgus

Question 67

Tunic worn by athenian men

Answer 67

Himiation

Question 68

Guardian of Athens

Answer 68

Athena