Lesson 16: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

480 B.C.

Answer 1

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 2

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 2

Leonidas

Question 3

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 3

Spartan 300

Question 4

He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.

Answer 4

Xerxes

Question 5

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 5

Hellespont

Question 6

490 B.C.

Answer 6

battle of Marathon

Question 7

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 7

Darius

Question 8

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 8

Miltiades

Question 9

He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians

Answer 9

Phidippides

Question 10

560 B.C.

Answer 10

coup of Pisistratus

Question 11

527 B.C.

Answer 11

death of Pisistratus

Question 12

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 12

republic

Question 13

Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.

Answer 13

Pisistratus

Question 14

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 14

Athens

Question 15

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 15

olive tree

Question 16

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 16

Acropolis

Question 17

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 17

Sparta

Question 18

624 B.C.

Answer 18

Draco’s code

Question 19

594 B.C.

Answer 19

Solon’s reforms

Question 20

It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.

Answer 20

Draco

Question 21

The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.

Answer 21

Solon

Question 22

Rule by the many.

Answer 22

democracy

Question 23

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 23

Croesus

Question 24

776 B.C.

Answer 24

first Olympic games

Question 25

650 B.C.

Answer 25

Lycurgus

Question 26

He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.

Answer 26

Lycurgus

Question 27

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 27

Lycurgus

Question 28

Rule by the few.

Answer 28

oligarchy

Question 29

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 29

Helots

Question 30

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 30

Peloponnesus

Question 31

1200 B.C.

Answer 31

Trojan War