Greek History

Question 1

Greco-Persian Wars

Answer 1

492-449 BCE
most active 490 - 479 (attacks by Persia)
Greek wins
under King Darius I and Xerxes

Question 2

Battle of Marathon

Answer 2

490 BCE

Question 3

Battle of Thermopylae

Answer 3

Leonidas v. Xerxes
three days during second Persian invasion
480 BCE

Question 4

Battle of Salamis

Answer 4

late 480 BCE
Xerxes withdrew to Asia after
Persia had too many ships to effectively battle

Question 5

Battle of Plataea

Answer 5

479 BCE (army defeat of Persia)

Question 6

Battle of Mycale

Answer 6

479 BCE
near Samos
defeat of Persian navy

Question 7

Peloponnesian War participants

Answer 7

Athens - Delian League

vs. Sparta - Peloponnesian League

Question 8

Peloponnesian War dates

Answer 8

431 - 404 BCE

Question 9

Peloponnesian War winner & results

Answer 9

Sparta wins, Delian League dissolved, Sparta rules over Athens and allies

Question 10

Thirty Tyrants

Answer 10

installed in Athens in 404 BCE post Pelop. Wars (government over Athens)

Question 11

Main members of Thirty Tyrants

Answer 11

Critias and Theramenes

Question 12

Minoan civilization

Answer 12

Crete + other islands

3000 to 1450 BCE, declined until 1100

Question 13

Mycenaean Greece

Answer 13

1600 - 1100 BCE
Cyclopean masonry
Linear B

Question 14

Greek Dark Ages

Answer 14

1100 - 750 BCE
collapse of Bronze Age
end of Linear B

Question 15

Archaic Greece

Answer 15

750ish BCE - 480 BCE (second invasion of Persia)

Greek alphabet develops

Question 16

Solon

Answer 16

630-560 BCE

Question 17

Classical Greece

Answer 17

480-323

Question 18

Hellenistic Greece

Answer 18

323 - 146 BCE

until Roman conquest at Battle of Corinth

Question 19

Socrates

Answer 19

470 - 399 BCE

Question 20

Plato

Answer 20

420s - 348ish BCE

Question 21

Aristotle

Answer 21

384 - 322