Haobai's State Cards

Question 1

According to historical records, the Battle of Plataea and the Battle of ______ both took place on the same day, August 27, 479 BCE, marking the end of the Persian Wars.

Answer 1

Mycale

Question 2

Which Athenian philosopher acted as a tutor to Alexander the Great?

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

Which Athenian noble attempted to seize the Acropolis by force in 632 BC?

Answer 3

Cylon

Question 4

The Battle of Marathon occurred in _____.

Answer 4

490 BCE

Question 5

Which famous Spartan lawgiver is said to have starved himself so that his people would obey his laws?

Answer 5

Lycurgus

Question 6

What Bactrian princess did Alexander the Great marry?

Answer 6

Roxane

Question 7

What brother of Hippias was murdered by Harmodius and Aristogeiton?

Answer 7

Hipparchus

Question 8

Epaminondas was killed in the Battle of _______________, supposedly in single combat with Xenophon’s son Gryllus.

Answer 8

Mantinea

Question 9

Whose laws were so harsh that they were said to have been written in blood?

Answer 9

Draco

Question 10

In what year did Athens complete the construction of the Long Walls?

Answer 10

458 BC

Question 11

Where did Sparta defeat Athens in 457 BC during the “First Peloponnesian War”?

Answer 11

Tanagra

Question 12

Alexander the Great defeated the Indian king Porus at the Battle of _________.

Answer 12

Hydaspes River

Question 13

Which Greek games, held during the 3rd year of each Olympiad, began in 582 BCE?

Answer 13

Pythian

Question 14

Where did 300 Spartans under Leonidas make a famous stand in 480 BC?

Answer 14

Thermopylae

Question 15

Which Spartan king co-ruled with Leonidas?

Answer 15

Leotychidas

Question 16

What linguist is credited with having deciphered Linear B?

Answer 16

Michael Ventris

Question 17

What was the name of Alexander the Great’s horse, after whom he named a city?

Answer 17

Bucephalus

Question 18

In which year did the infamous mutilation of the herms occur?

Answer 18

415 BCE

Question 19

Who convinced the Athenians to limit citizenship to those whose parents were both Athenian?

Answer 19

Pericles

Question 20

Which Persian king ordered the invasion of Greece in 490 BC?

Answer 20

Darius

Question 21

What city-state founded the colony of Taras in c. 707 BC?

Answer 21

Sparta

Question 22

Who seized the Piraeus in opposition to the Thirty Tyrants in 403 BC?

Answer 22

Thrasybulus

Question 23

The First Peloponnesian War began in _____.

Answer 23

460 BCE

Question 24

In 510, who was deposed as tyrant of Athens?

Answer 24

Hippias

Question 25

Where did 120 Spartan hoplites surrender to Athenian forces in 425 BC?

Answer 25

Sphacteria

Question 26

The ______________ was the peaceful fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 26

Pentekontaetia

Question 27

In Athens, who created the Boule, increased the powers of the Ecclesia, and made the strategoi more important than the polemarch?

Answer 27

Cleisthenes

Question 28

Which city-state’s assembly was called the Apella?

Answer 28

Sparta

Question 29

The Spartan dual kingship was shared between the Agids and ________.

Answer 29

Eurypontids

Question 30

Prior to Solon’s reforms, which aristocratic family dominated Athens?

Answer 30

Eupatrids

Question 31

What was the first league in Greek history, to which the Delphians appealed in the 1st Sacred War?

Answer 31

Amphictyonic League

Question 32

Which Greek ruler did Plato attempt to turn into a “philosopher-king”?

Answer 32

Dionysius II

Question 33

Where did the Persians crush the revolt of the Ionian Greeks in 494 BC?

Answer 33

Lade

Question 34

In which Greek city was Philip II of Macedon held hostage as a teenager?

Answer 34

Thebes

Question 35

Which Spartan king was the first to wage war against the Messenians?

Answer 35

Theopompus

Question 36

Who commanded the Greek mercenaries at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC?

Answer 36

Clearchus

Question 37

What brilliant politician fled from Athens and turned traitor after being implicated in the plot to mutilate the hermae in 415 BC?

Answer 37

Alcibiades

Question 38

What war concluded with the King's Peace in 386 BC?

Answer 38

Corinthian War

Question 39

What culture is known for its palace civilizations at Knossos and Phaistos?

Answer 39

Minoan

Question 40

The First Persian Invasion of Greece began in _____.

Answer 40

492 BCE

Question 41

Which island was the first to rebel against the Delian League in 470 BC?

Answer 41

Naxos

Question 42

What Athenian’s reforms led to the establishment of democracy in 508 BC?

Answer 42

Cleisthenes

Question 43

In what year were the first Olympic Games held?

Answer 43

776 BC

Question 44

What tyrant of Syracuse ruled for 38 years and built his city into an empire in the 4th century BC?

Answer 44

Dionysius I

Question 45

Which of the following was NOT one of the generals originally named to the Sicilian Expedition?

Answer 45

Gylippus

Question 46

Alexander made his close friend, _______, his second in command when he appointed him Chiliarch of the empire.

Answer 46

Hephaestion

Question 47

Where did Alexander first encounter the army of Darius III in 334 BCE?

Answer 47

Granicus

Question 48

Who chronicled the March of the Ten Thousand?

Answer 48

Xenophon

Question 49

What was the correct order of battles fought by Alexander the Great?

Answer 49

Granicus → Issus → Tyre → Gaugamela

Question 50

Who granted Aeneas safe-haven when he landed at Carthage?

Answer 50

Dido

Question 51

What Spartan king led the united Greeks to victory at Plataea in 479 BC?

Answer 51

Pausanias

Question 52

Which Athenian statesman advocated the policy of seisactheia, the cancellation of debts?

Answer 52

Solon

Question 53

What was the capital of Macedon during the time of Alexander?

Answer 53

Pella

Question 54

Hipparchus was killed in _____.

Answer 54

514 BCE

Question 55

What Athenian strategos was responsible for the victory at Marathon?

Answer 55

Miltiades

Question 56

In ______ the Four Hundred came into power at Athens.

Answer 56

411 BCE

Question 57

What Athenian general was slain at the battle of Coronea in 447 BC?

Answer 57

Tolmides

Question 58

In 449 BCE, Athens signed the Peace of Callias with what state?

Answer 58

Persia

Question 59

Who always commanded the right wing of Alexander the Great’s army?

Answer 59

Parmenio

Question 60

After his defeat by Alexander the Great, Porus, the Indian king and warrior _______.

Answer 60

Was reinstated as the ruler of the region by Alexander

Question 61

Which of the following men did NOT help construct the Parthenon?

Answer 61

Praxiteles

Question 62

What was the name of the citadel of Thebes, seized by the Spartans in 382 BC?

Answer 62

Cadmea

Question 63

Who became the most powerful politician at Athens after Pericles’ death?

Answer 63

Cleon

Question 64

Which archaeologist discovered Mycenae and Troy?

Answer 64

Heinrich Schliemann

Question 65

A plague killed a quarter of the population of Athens in _____.

Answer 65

430 BCE

Question 66

What great Athenian statesman, ostracized in 472 BC, died in exile in Persia?

Answer 66

Themistocles

Question 67

The agreement of 448 BC between Athens and Persia is referred to as the Peace of ________.

Answer 67

Callias

Question 68

Where did Theban generals Pelopidas and Epaminondas defeat the Spartans in 371 BC?

Answer 68

Leuctra

Question 69

Which tyrant of Corinth overthrew the Bacchiads in the seventh century BC?

Answer 69

Cypselus

Question 70

Which king of Sparta attempted to set up an oligarchy at Athens with the support of Isagoras?

Answer 70

Cleomenes I

Question 71

Which tyrant of Syracuse succeeded Gelon and defeated the Etruscans at Cyme in 474 BCE?

Answer 71

Hieron

Question 72

What city did Alexander destroy in 335 BCE, leaving only the house of Pindar standing?

Answer 72

Thebes

Question 73

Which Spartan general was killed while defending Amphipolis in 422 BC?

Answer 73

Brasidas

Question 74

Which games were held at Corinth in honor of the god Poseidon?

Answer 74

Isthmian Games

Question 75

Who was the father of Pericles?

Answer 75

Xanthippus

Question 76

Where was the battle fought in 405 BC that effectively ended the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 76

Aegospotami

Question 77

Who delivered the Third Philippic in 341 BC, urging war against the king of Macedon?

Answer 77

Demosthenes

Question 78

What was the name of the school founded by Aristotle in Athens?

Answer 78

Lyceum

Question 79

Issus, where Alexander won a great victory, is located on which river?

Answer 79

Pinarus