Events

Question 1

When was Marathon?

Answer 1

490 BCE

Question 2

Who ran from Athens to Sparta?

Answer 2

Dissipates ran 150 miles to Sparta

Question 3

Why was marathon important

Answer 3

It was the first of the Greco-Persian wars and showed Sparta that Athens had strength

Question 4

What happened during Thermopylae?

Answer 4

War during 480 BCE, second gp war, after dariuses death (xerxes)Persia won, all 300 Spartans died, Greece was betrayed

Question 5

When happened during salamis?

Answer 5

480 BCE, Greek victory, Themistocles vs Xerxes, Greek triremes trapped Persia’s navy in the straits

Question 6

What happened during the battle of plataea?

Answer 6

479 BCE, third gp war, Greek victory, land battle

Question 7

The Delian league

Answer 7

Founded 478 BCE, island of Delos, eventual take over by Athens in 454 BCE, like nato which protected Greece from invasion causing Peloponnesian war

Question 8

The peloponnesian war

Answer 8

Between Sparta and Athens, first in 459-445, second from 431-404, spartan win and takeover, needed golden age, plague, Sparta installed oligarchy