Book 1, Chapter 3, Set 1

Question 1

When was the earliest rise of the Greek city-states? (page 86)

Answer 1

c. 700 BCE.

Question 2

When were the first coins minted and where? (page 86)

Answer 2

The first coins were minted c. 650 BCE in Lydia, Asia Minor.

Question 3

When was the rise of the Greek “tyrants” in the Greek city-states? (page 86)

Answer 3

c. 650 BCE.

Question 4

When was the start of iron working in China? (page 86)

Answer 4

c. 650 BCE.

Question 5

When is the traditional date of the accession of Tarquin, Etruscan king of Rome? (page 86)

Answer 5

616 BCE.

Question 6

When did Assyria sack Thebes and reach the height of its power? (page 86)

Answer 6

663 BCE.

Question 7

When was the birth was the legendary first emperor of Japan, Jimmu? (page 86)

Answer 7

660 BCE.

Question 8

When did the Assyrian Empire end with the sacking of Nineveh and Nimrud? (page 86)

Answer 8

612 BCE.

Question 9

When was the birth of Lao Tzu? (page 86)

Answer 9

605 BCE.

Question 10

When did the Babylonian Empire under Nebudchadnezzar II destroy Jersulaem’s temple and exile the Israelites? (page 86)

Answer 10

587 BCE.

Question 11

About what year was Siddhartha Gautama born? (page 86)

Answer 11

c. 563 BCE.

Question 12

When did Zoroastrianism become the official religion of the Persian state? (page 86)

Answer 12

c. 551 BCE.

Question 13

About what date was Confucius born? (page 86)

Answer 13

c. 551 BCE.

Question 14

When was the Babylonian empire absorbed by

Persia? (page 86)

Answer 14

539 BCE.

Question 15

When did the Romans expel the Etruscans in Italy? (page 86)

Answer 15

510 BCE.

Question 16

When did Cleisthenes establish democracy in Athens? (page 86)

Answer 16

505 BCE.

Question 17

When did rice farming reach Japan from China? (page 86)

Answer 17

c. 500 BCE.

Question 18

When did Athenian Greeks defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon? (page 86)

Answer 18

490 BCE.

Question 19

When did the “Spring and Autumn” annals, the first chronological history of China, end?

Answer 19

481 BCE.

Question 20

When was Xerxes’ invasion of Greece defeated at Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale? (page 86)

Answer 20

480 - 479 BCE.

Question 21

When did the Archaic Period of Greek art end and the Classical Period begin? (page 86)

Answer 21

480 BCE.

Question 22

When was the Confederacy of Delos, later the Athenian Empire, founded? (page 86)

Answer 22

478 BCE.

Question 23

When did the Peloponnesian Wars between the city-states of Athen and Sparta begin? (page 87)

Answer 23

431 BCE.

Question 24

When did construction on the second Parthenon in Athens to replace the first destroyed by the Persians begin? (page 87)

Answer 24

448 BCE.

Question 25

When did the “Golden Age” of Athens under Pericles begin? (page 87)

Answer 25

443 BCE.

Question 26

When was the “Warring States” period of China? (page 87)

Answer 26

403 - 221 BCE.

Question 27

When did the Celts sack Rome? (page 87)

Answer 27

390 BCE.

Question 28

When did Plato complete The Symposium? (page 87)

Answer 28

384 BCE.

Question 29

When did the crossbow begin to be used in Chinese warfare? (page 87)

Answer 29

c. 360 BCE.

Question 30

When did Carthage dominate the west Mediterranean? (page 87)

Answer 30

c. 400 BCE.