Important Dates

Question 1

Trojan War

Answer 1

1250 BCE

Question 2

Iron (Dark) Age

Answer 2

1100-750 BCE

The age of Homer

Question 3

First Olympic Games

Answer 3

776 BCE

Question 4

Archaic Period

Answer 4

750-480 BCE

Question 5

Classical Period

Answer 5

480-323 BCE

Question 6

death of Alexander the Great

Answer 6

323 BCE

Question 7

Hellenistic Period

Answer 7

323-30 BCE

Question 8

spread of Greek culture; Greek ruling class; Greek language; rise of cosmopolitan cities (e.g. Alexandria; Antioch; Pergamum; Athens); rhetoric becomes chief tool of education esp. in cities of Greek Asia (e.g. Rhodes)

Answer 8

323-279 BCE

Question 9

legendary founding of Rome by Romulus

Answer 9

753 BCE

Question 10

Rome: rise of the republic

Answer 10

753-30 BCE

Question 11

Rome is ruled by a monarchy. the 7 kings - some Etruscan - elected by people & advised by senate of elders

Answer 11

753-510 BCE

Question 12

Greece is conquered and becomes a Roman province.

Carthage is conquered and razed to the ground.

Answer 12

146 BCE

Question 13

death of Caesar

Answer 13

44 BCE

Question 14

death of Cicero

Answer 14

43 BCE

Question 15

Octavian becomes emperor (Augustus)

Answer 15

30 BCE

Question 16

Conquest of Egypt by Rome

Answer 16

30 BCE

Question 17

Rome: the Empire

Answer 17

30 BCE - 410 CE

Question 18

Augustan Age

Answer 18

30 BCE - 14 CE

Vergil; Horace; Ovid; Livy

Question 19

Hadrian. Roman empire reaches its peak

Answer 19

117-138 CE

Question 20

Constantine’s Edict of Milan

Answer 20

313 CE

grants religious freedom to Christians

Question 21

Nicean Creed

Answer 21

325 CE

Question 22

Empire divided between East and West

Answer 22

395 CE

Question 23

Lifetime of Augustine

Answer 23

354-430 CE

Question 24

Rome sacked by the Gauls (Gothic tribes)

Answer 24

410 CE

Question 25

Punic Wars with Carthage

Answer 25

2-3rd century BCE

Question 26

Cicero Consul. Catilinarian conspiracy suppressed

Answer 26

63 BCE

Question 27

First Triumvirate

Answer 27

60 BCE

Caesar, Pompey, Crassus

Question 28

Lifetime of Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus

Answer 28

204-270 CE

Question 29

Lifetime of Mani, founder of Manicheism

Answer 29

216–274 CE

Question 30

Diocletian founds Tetrarchy

Answer 30

284 CE

Question 31

The most severe persecutions of Christians under Diocletian

Answer 31

303-313 CE

Question 32

Rise of Democracy in Greece

Answer 32

620-480 BCE

Question 33

Geek polis culture

Answer 33

750-500 BCE