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Hellenic History Cards Set I Flashcards

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1
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With what event in 776 does Hellenic History officially begin?

A

First Olympics

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In what year does Hellenic History officially begin with the onset of the Olympics?

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776

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When a colony was founded, what leader of the colonists would take fire from the hearth of the mother-city to start a fire in the new city’s hearth?

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Oecist

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What was technically the first Greek colony, which did not last long?

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Pithecusae

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What Greek Italian colony (rather than Pithecusae) is more regularly known as the first colony?

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Cumae

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In 734, Corinth founded what colony in Sicily, which would later become the largest city in the Greek world?

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Syracuse

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In 707, the Spartans founded their one and only colony where?

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Taras (Tarentum)

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What city is also called Lacedaemon?

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Sparta

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9
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Who developed the Spartan constitution in 885?

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Lycurgus

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With what neighboring city did Sparta wage war in the late eighth century?

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Messenia

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What legendary Messenian hero is said to have sacrificed his daughter to save his city against Sparta to no avail?

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Aristodemus

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What people, despite outnumbering the Spartans 10:1, were subjugated and forced to become helots to Sparta in the late eighth century?

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Messenians

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13
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What Greek city on the Peloponnesus famously never had a tyrant?

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Sparta

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What city was ruled by 2 kings at a time who each had power over each other, much like Rome’s consular system?

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Sparta

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What group of 5 men, 2 of whom had to accompany kings on campaign, were chosen out of the Spartan Gerousia?

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Ephors

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What name was given to the Spartan counsel of 30 noblemen, including the kings not over the age of 60?

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Gerousia

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17
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What name is given to the assembly of all Spartan citizens, members of which could not vote until they were 30?

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Apella

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18
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At what age were Spartan boys taken from their mothers and put in a group camp to prepare for military service?

A

7

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19
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Participation in athletics, ownership of property, management of husband’s lands, etc. were among the rights of women held in what Greek city?

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Sparta

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Spartan women had all the rights of men except for what two rights?

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To vote and hold office

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21
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After learning the location of the bones of Orestes, whom did Sparta invade and conquer?

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Tegea

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22
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After defeating Argos, Sparta formed and headed what league?

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Peloponnesian League

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23
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What name is given to rule without democratic representation?

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Tyranny

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24
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What Dorian city, found just outside the Peloponnesus, was ruled after the fall of its monarchy by the Bacchiads, an aristocratic family?

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Corinth

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25
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Despite being hidden in a chest (from which he’s named), what man overthrew the Bacchiads to become the first Tyrant of Corinth?

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Cypselus

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26
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What son of Cypselus succeeded his father as tyrant of Corinth around 620?

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Periander

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27
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Under whose tyranny did Corinth reach its greatest prosperity and power?

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Periander

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28
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In what region of Greece was Athens located?

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Attica

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29
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What process of combining political entities into one gave Athenian citizenship and rights to all inhabitants of Attica?

A

Synoecism

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30
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What name is given to the hill in the middle of Athens?

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Acropolis

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31
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What early Athenian tried to establish tyranny in the city before was besieged on the Acropolis and killed by Megacles?

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Cylon

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32
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While trying to establish tyranny in Athens, Cylon was killed by what other Athenian?

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Megacles

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33
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What man’s actions caused his descendants, the Alcmeonids, to be stigmatized for generations?

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Megacles

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34
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In 621, what Athenian instituted an especially harsh law code?

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Draco

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35
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What Athenian statesman and poet served as archon for 594-593 before going into voluntary exile after his rule?

A

Solon

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36
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Solon helped turning Athens from an aristocracy to what other form of government in which classes are determined by wealth rather than birth?

A

Timocracy

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37
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Solon’s first act as archon was what action, a cancellation of enslavement for debt?

A

Seisachtheia

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38
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Changing Athenian currency, adding lot to the election process, and the seisactheia were reforms made by what archon?

A

Solon

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39
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Which Athenian political party opposed the institutions of Solon and which party favored them?

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Plains opposed, Coast favored

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40
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In 561, what man became the first tyrant of Athens?

A

Pisistratus

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41
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What political party was formed by the Athenian Pisistratus?

A

Hills

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42
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What Athenian tyrant paved the way for the end of the Hektemoroi (laborers) class by giving them land?

A

Pisistratus

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43
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Following a war with Megara, Pisistratus added what island to Athens?

A

Salamis

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44
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Pisistratus added Salamis to Athens following a war with whom?

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Megara

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45
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Following the death of Pisistratus in 528, what two sons succeeded him?

A

Hippias and Hipparchus

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46
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Hippias and Hipparchus succeeded what man, their father, as rulers of Athens?

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Pisistratus

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47
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Because he had not allowed Harmodius’s sister to carry a basket in the Panathenaic procession, what Athenian ruler (and son of Pisistratus) was killed by Harmodius and Aristogiton?

A

Hipparchus

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What two men assassinated HIpparchus because he had not allowed the sister of one of them to carry a basket in the Panathenaic procession?

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Harmodius and Aristogiton

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49
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In 510, what Spartan king invaded Athens at the behest of the exiled Alcmaeonids to force Hippias out of power?

A

Cleomenes

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50
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After Cleomenes invaded Athens, where was Hippias exiled?

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Persia

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51
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With Hippias exiled to Persia, what Alcmaeonid instituted a number of reforms to make Athens a true democracy?

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Cleisthenes

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52
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What type of new council, whose 500 members were determined by lot, was instituted by Cleisthenes in Athens?

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Boule

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53
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What generals were elected by the assembly in Athens each year and eventually grew more important than the polemarch?

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Strategoi

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54
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In what year did Athens fully embrace democracy?

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508

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55
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The Persian Empire fell into crisis after what king, the son of Cyrus, died without an heir?

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Cambyses

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56
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What Persian, the leader of the king’s bodyguards, seized the throne after the death of Cambyses?

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Darius I (The Great)

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57
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Aristagoras, a leader of what most powerful Ionian city, appealed to Athens for aid during the Persian revolt?

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Miletus

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58
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What leader of Miletus, the most powerful Ionian city, appealed to Athens for aid in the Persian revolt?

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Miletus

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59
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What city, the former Lydian capital and the Persian provincial capital for the region, did the Ionian Greek rebels sack in 497?

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Sardis

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60
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Following the sack of Sardis, the Persians responded by defeating the Ionians at what battle in 494?

A

Lade

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61
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In 492, what Persian general conquered all of Thrace and Macedonia?

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Mardonius

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63
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In 490, Darius I sent what general to punish Athens for helping the Ionian revolt against Persia?

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Datis

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64
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Whom did Darius, Datis, and the other Persians aim to reinstall as leader in Athens in 490?

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Hippias

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65
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As the Persians bore down Athens, they sent Phidippides (or Philippides) to what city for assistance, who had to deny due to an ongoing religious festival?

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Sparta

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66
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What small city aided Athens in the Battle of Marathon against Persia by sending 1000 soldiers?

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Plataea

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67
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What Athenian strategos was in command during the Battle of Marathon?

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Militiades

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68
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What military formation, manned by hoplite soldiers, did Greek armies typically use?

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Phalanx

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69
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Who was the Polemarch of Militiades who instructed his soldiers to lay a flanking trap for the Persians at the Battle of Marathon?

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Callimachus

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70
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Only 192 Athenians and Plataeans were killed at what battle against the Persians who were unable to overcome the superior hoplites?

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Marathon

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71
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Following what battle did the Greek Phidippides (or Philippides) run the 26 miles to Sparta to yell “Nike!” (“Victory!”) before dying?

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Marathon

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72
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Following the battle of Marathon, what Greek ran the 26 miles to Sparta to yell “Nike!” (“Victory!”) before dying?

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Phidippides (or Philippides)

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73
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in 485, what man took the throne of Persia following the death of his father, Darius I?

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Xerxes

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74
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What would happen if a majority of the Ecclesia voted for a person to be ostracized?

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They would be exiled for 10 years

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75
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What is the meaning of the Greek word ‘ostrakon’ from which ostracism is derived?

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vessel (as in a clay vessel)

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76
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What politician and rival of Cleisthenes was the first person to suffer an Athenian ostracism?

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Hipparchus (different one, not the son of Pisistratus)

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77
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What Athenian grew to extreme prominence during the foundation of the ostracism, forcing it upon Megacles, Xanthippus, and Aristides?

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Themistocles

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78
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With what type of ship did Themistocles replace the pentaconters after discovering a silver vein in Laurion?

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Triremes

79
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As the Persians began to threaten Greece, some individuals and cities began siding with them in a process known as what?

A

Medizing (favoring the Medes)

80
Q

Early in 480, a naval delaying action was fought where in at attempt to slow the Persian forces?

A

Artemisium

81
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At what battle in July of 480 did just 7,000 Greek soldiers defend against the forces of 200,000 Persians?

A

Thermopylae

82
Q

What Spartan king was the leader of the Greek forces at Thermopylae?

A

Leonidas

83
Q

How many Spartans (along with the 1,100 allied Greek troops) were left to defend the mountain pass at Thermopylae?

A

300

84
Q

Who, the Greek equivalent of Benedict Arnold, told the Persians about the narrow trail around the mountain pass at Thermopylae?

A

Ephialtes

85
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What name was given to the best of Xerxes’s soldiers?

A

Immortals

86
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Before the battle of Thermopylae, when a retreating Greek told a Spartan that Persian arrows would block out the sun, with what did the Spartan respond?

A

“I prefer to fight in the shade”

87
Q

As the Persians advanced towards Athens, what did the Oracle tell the Athenians?

A

To put their trust in the wooden wall

88
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When the Oracle told Athens to put their trust in the wooden wall, how did Themistocles interpret that?

A

To put all their hopes on the navy

89
Q

What Athenian is said to have tricked the Persians by sending false information to Xerxes before the battle of Salamis in 480?

A

Themistocles

90
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Before what battle in 480 did Themistocles send false info to trick Xerxes and the Persians?

A

Salamis

91
Q

What Carian queen gave advice to Xerxes urging him not to fight the Greeks at Salamis to no avail?

A

Artemisia

92
Q

In 479, the Spartan Pausanias led the Greek army at what battle to defeat the Persians?

A

Plataea

93
Q

Who led the Greek army to defeat the Persians led by Mardonius at Plataea in 479?

A

Pausanias

94
Q

At what final battle of the Persian wars did Leotychidas command the Greeks in 479?

A

Mycale

95
Q

What league did Athens found following the Persian wars in 477?

A

Delian League

96
Q

What Athenian statesman, known as “The Just” was tasked with keeping up the League’s finances?

A

Aristides

97
Q

What man was largely responsible for the birth of Athenian naval power?

A

Themistocles

98
Q

Xanthippus and Aristides eclipsed in power what Athenian who was ostracized to Persia in 472?

A

Themistocles

99
Q

In 458, Athens completed the Long Walls which connected it to its port called what?

A

Piraeus

100
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What symbol of Athenian power did Athens complete in 458 to connect the city to its port, Piraeus?

A

The Long Walls

101
Q

What commander of the Delian league, who won many victories over the Persians, was ostracized in 461?

A

Cimon

102
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In 454, to what city was the treasury of the Delian League moved?

A

Athens

103
Q

Whose murder in 461 left Pericles basically in charge of Athens?

A

Ephialtes

104
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What two men led the opposition party pushing for Cimon’s exile in 461?

A

Pericles and Ephialtes

105
Q

What war began in 459 when Athenian forces seized Naupactus and Megara surrendered?

A

First Peloponnesian War

106
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With what city’s submission to Athens does the First Peloponnesian War begin?

A

Megara

107
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Before what battle of 457 between Athens and Sparta did Cimon beg to be reinstated?

A

Tanagra

108
Q

Under the command of Myronides, Athens invaded and controlled all of Boeotia except for what city?

A

Thebes

109
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During the First Peloponnesian War, Athens lost control of Boeotia after losing what battle in 447?

A

Coronea

110
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In 449, what treaty was signed between Athens and Persia?

A

Peace of Callias

111
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In 446 (or 445), what treaty was signed by Athens and Sparta ending the First Peloponnesian War?

A

Thirty Years’ Peace

112
Q

What Athenian was elected strategos for 15 consecutive years from 444-429)

A

Pericles

113
Q

In 435, war between Corinth and her colony Corcyra eventually escalated into what major war?

A

Second Peloponnesian War

114
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The Second Peloponnesian War escalated from what city’s war with her colony Corcyra 4 years prior?

A

Corinth

115
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What Athenian statesman who opposed Pericles wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War, covering the conflict until 411?

A

Thucydides

116
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What Spartan king invaded Attica in 431, thus beginning the Second Peloponnesian War?

A

Archidamus

117
Q

What devastating event happened in Athens in 430?

A

Plague

118
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What prominent Athenian died from the plague in 429?

A

Pericles

119
Q

To what city does Sparta lay siege and capture in 427?

A

Plataea

120
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In 428, what city tries to revolt from Athens for which they were swiftly defeated, their men sentenced to death, and the women and children to slavery?

A

Mytilene

121
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In 425, which Athenian general captures 100 Spartans at Sphacteria, a rarity as Spartans typically do not surrender?

A

Cleon

122
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Which Spartan general forced Athens into a one year truce in 423?

A

Brasidas

123
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Both the Spartan Brasidas and the Athenian Cleon were killed at what battle, a Spartan victory?

A

Amphipolis

124
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In 421, what treaty, named after an Athenian statesman, is agreed to by Athens and Sparta?

A

Nicias

125
Q

What name is given to the first ten years of the Second Peloponnesian War?

A

Archidamian War

126
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What Athenian rises to prominence in 420 and convinces Athens to undertake an expedition against Epidaurus, therefore breaking the Peace of Nicias?

A

Alcibiades

127
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Following the expedition against Epidaurus, Athens then sets out to Sicily to force what Spartan ally from the war?

A

Syracuse

128
Q

What sacrilegious event, for which Alcibiades was framed, occurs in Athens at 415?

A

Mutilation of the Herms (Hermes Statues)

129
Q

What man is originally accused of the Mutilation of the Herms, but is acquitted?

A

Alcibiades

130
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Following Alcibiades’s acquittal for the Mutilation of the Herms, who confessed to the crime and fled to Sparta?

A

Andocides

131
Q

What man convinced Sparta to fortify Decelea and aid Syracuse after fleeing to Sparta in 414?

A

Andocides

132
Q

Whom does Sparta send to aid Syracuse against Athens during the Second Peloponnesian War?

A

Gylippus

133
Q

What phenomenon is potentially partly to blame for the failure of the Athenian expedition to Syracuse in 413?

A

An eclipse

134
Q

What Athenian general led the expedition of Sicily in 413 and essentially doomed Athens after losing 45,000 men?

A

Nicias

135
Q

In 411, what man led “the four hundred”, an oligarchic group, to power in Athens?

A

Theramenes

136
Q

“The Four Hundred” led by Theramenes were very quickly replaced as the power group in Athens by what other group?

A

The Five Thousand

137
Q

After what Athenian victory, led by Alcibiades, was Athenian democracy restored in 410?

A

Cyzicus

138
Q

In what battle of 407 does Alcibiades lose to the Spartan admiral Lysander, for which Alcibiades is removed from command?

A

Notion

139
Q

What battle does Athens win in 406?

A

Arginusae

140
Q

In what battle of 405 does the Spartan admiral defeat Athens, the final major battle of the Second Peloponnesian War?

A

Aegospotami

141
Q

In what year was Athens forced to surrender the Second Peloponnesian War and tear down their Long Walls?

A

404

142
Q

Following the Second Peloponnesian War, Sparta set up an oligarchic structure in Athens called what?

A

Thirty Tyrants

143
Q

What man officially proposed the institution of the Thirty Tyrants?

A

Draconides

144
Q

Who was the most radical of the Thirty Tyrants who condemns his fellow tyrant Theramenes to death in 403?

A

Critias

145
Q

Who captains the rebels in a civil war against the Thirty Tyrants leading to the death of Critias?

A

Thrasybulus

146
Q

Between what two Persians was there a civil war to contend for the throne?

A

Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes

147
Q

Who hires 10,000 Greek mercenaries in an attempt to defeat Artaxerxes for the throne of Persia?

A

Cyrus the Younger

148
Q

In what battle of 401 were the Greek mercenaries led by Clearchus victorious, but Cyrus was killed?

A

Cunaxa

149
Q

Who took command of the leaderless Greek mercenaries following the battle of Cunaxa and led them on the March of the Ten Thousand?

A

Xenophon

150
Q

Who wrote the Anabasis, an account of his March of the Ten Thousand?

A

Xenophon

151
Q

“Thalassa, Thalassa!” was uttered by the Greek mercenaries once they reached the Black Sea during the March of the Ten Thousand according to whose Anabasis?

A

Xenophon’s

152
Q

Who came to the throne of Sparta in 398 and succeeded Lysander as the most important Spartan?

A

Agesilaus

153
Q

What term is given to Spartan governors?

A

Harmosts

154
Q

What Athenian admiral was appointed commander of a large Persian fleet and defeated the Spartans at Cnidus in 394?

A

Conon

155
Q

Who was killed at the siege of Haliartus in 395?

A

Lysander

156
Q

In 386, what name was given to the treaty imposed by Persia between them and Sparta?

A

King’s Peace

157
Q

Known as the “Aristides of the Second Athenian League”, who organized the finances of the Second Athenian Confederacy in 378?

A

Callistratus

158
Q

As part of the Second Athenian Confederacy, Athens allies themselves with what other city?

A

Thebes

159
Q

Who led the Athenians to a victory over the Spartans at Naxos in 376?

A

Chabrias

160
Q

While Athens and Sparta agreed to the Peace of Callias in 371, what city was excluded from the truce and continued fighting with Sparta?

A

Thebes

161
Q

Who led the Thebans to a victory against the Cleombrotus-led Spartans at Leuctra, ending Spartan hegemony?

A

Epaminondas

162
Q

Following Sparta’s defeat at what battle was Spartan hegemony ended?

A

Leuctra

163
Q

Who laid down
designs for domination of eastern Greece, but was assassinated in 370?

A

Jason of Pherae

164
Q

Who became the dominant power in Greece following the battle of Leuctra?

A

Thebes

165
Q

What city did Thebes found in 370 (or 369) through synoikismos (synoecism)?

A

Megalopolis

166
Q

To keep Sparta in check, Thebes founds Megalopolis and what new league?

A

Arcadian League

167
Q

What Theban dies in single combat against Gryllus, the son of Xenophon, at the battle of Mantinea in 362?

A

Epaminondas

168
Q

At what battle of 362 did Epaminondas and the Thebans end Spartan prominence forever?

A

Mantinea

169
Q

Who came into the rule of Macedon in 364?

A

Philip II

170
Q

Having been taken hostage in Thebes at 15 and learning Epaminondas’s infantry tactics, who was able to unite Macedonia and take control of northern Greece?

A

Philip II

171
Q

What Athenian orator spoke out against the increasing power of Macedonia?

A

Demosthenes

172
Q

Who are the parents of Alexander the Great, who was born in 356?

A

Philip II and Olympias

173
Q

What orator, as a counter to Demosthenes, supported Philip II and Macedonia?

A

Isocrates

174
Q

What Phocian king was the only man to defeat Philip II, but eventually fell to him?

A

Onomarchus

175
Q

During the same period of Philip’s increasing power and influence, who was the financial officer of the Theoric Fund?

A

Eubulus

176
Q

What name is given to the invective speeches of Demosthenes against Philip II?

A

Philippics

177
Q

What Athenian orator, who overcame a speech impediment by speaking with rocks in his mouth, delivered speeches called the Philippics against Philip II?

A

Demosthenes

178
Q

With what treaty of 346 did Athens and Macedonia agree to peace for just 5 years?

A

Peace of Philocrates

179
Q

At what battle of 338 did Philip II and Alexander defeat the combined forces of Thebes and Athens?

A

Chaeronea

180
Q

After what battle in 338 was Philip II the undisputed master of Greece before he was assassinated in 336?

A

Chaeronea

181
Q

Who is victorious at the battle of Chaeronea in 338?

A

Philip II

182
Q

Who defeats the Persians at the battle of Granicus in 334?

A

Alexander

183
Q

In 333, who famously cuts the Gordian knot with his sword?

A

Alexander

184
Q

At what battle of 333 does Alexander defeat the Persian king Darius III?

A

Issus

185
Q

Who defeats Darius III at the battle of Issus in 333?

A

Alexander

186
Q

What Persian king does Alexander defeat at the battle of Issus in 333?

A

Darius III

187
Q

What island city does Alexander capture after a 7 month siege in 332?

A

Tyre

188
Q

Alexander conquers Egypt in 332 then founds what city in 331?

A

Alexandria

189
Q

At what battle of 331 does Alexander defeat Darius and 200,000 Persians?

A

Gaugamela

190
Q

What two Persian capitals do Alexander and the Greeks sack following the battle of Gaugamela?

A

Susa and Persepolis

191
Q

What general of Alexander kills Darius III?

A

Bessus

192
Q

Who was Alexander’s horse whom was killed in a battle in India?

A

Bucephalus

193
Q

Where does Alexander die in 323 at the age of 33?

A

Babylon

194
Q

On what specific day does Alexander fall ill and die?

A

June 13, 323

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