Lesson 16: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards
480 B.C.
battles of Thermopylae, Salamis
The hero of Thermopylae.
Leonidas
Elite Spartan military force.
Spartan 300
He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.
Xerxes
The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.
Hellespont
490 B.C.
battle of Marathon
King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.
Darius
The hero of Marathon.
Miltiades
He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians
Phidippides
560 B.C.
coup of Pisistratus
527 B.C.
death of Pisistratus
Rule by magistrates or councils.
republic
Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.
Pisistratus
The Acropolis was in this city.
Athens
The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis
olive tree
The citadel of Athens.
Acropolis
The only state in Greece that never became a republic.
Sparta
624 B.C.
Draco’s code
594 B.C.
Solon’s reforms
It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.
Draco
The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.
Solon
Rule by the many.
democracy
Rich king of Lydia.
Croesus
776 B.C.
first Olympic games
650 B.C.
Lycurgus
He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.
Lycurgus
His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.
Lycurgus
Rule by the few.
oligarchy
The slaves of the Spartans.
Helots
The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand
Peloponnesus
1200 B.C.
Trojan War
