Athens And Sparta

Question 1

Delian League-

Answer 1

• Athenian league

- their purpose was to guard against the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea

Question 2

Peloponnesian League-

Answer 2

• spartan league
• against the Delian League.
• tired of how cocky Athens was

Question 3

Thucydides-

Answer 3

• father of “scientific history”
• father of the school of political realism
• documented the Peloponnesian wars

Question 4

Pericles-

Answer 4

-Athenian statesman who oversaw the building of the acropolis

Question 5

Xenophon-

Answer 5

• an Athenian-born military leader, philosopher, and historian.
• commander the Ten Thousand
• ostracized from Athens and went on to aid Sparta in the Peloponnesian war

Question 6

Parthenon-

Answer 6

temple in the Athenian Acropolis, Greece,

dedicated to Athena(the people of Athens considered Athena to be their patroness)

Question 7

Hoplites-

Answer 7

a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece

Question 8

Three orders of Greek architecture-

Answer 8

• doric-bacis
• ionic- scroll
• Corinthian-fancy