Lesson 18: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

479 B.C.

Answer 1

battle of Plataea

Question 2

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 2

Aristides

Question 3

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 3

Plataea

Question 4

Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet.”

Answer 4

ostracism

Question 5

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 5

Mardonius

Question 6

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 6

Pausanias

Question 7

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 7

Mycale

Question 8

He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.

Answer 8

Themistocles

Question 9

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 9

war ships

Question 10

480 B.C.

Answer 10

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 11

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 11

Leonidas

Question 12

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 12

Spartan 300

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Xerxes

Question 14

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 14

Hellespont

Question 15

490 B.C.

Answer 15

battle of Marathon

Question 16

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 16

Darius

Question 17

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 17

Miltiades

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Phidippides

Question 19

560 B.C.

Answer 19

coup of Pisistratus

Question 20

527 B.C.

Answer 20

death of Pisistratus

Question 21

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 21

republic

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Pisistratus

Question 23

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 23

Athens

Question 24

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 24

olive tree

Question 25

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 25

Acropolis

Question 26

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 26

Sparta

Question 27

624 B.C.

Answer 27

Draco’s code

Question 28

594 B.C.

Answer 28

Solon’s reforms

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Draco

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Solon

Question 31

Rule by the many.

Answer 31

democracy

Question 32

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 32

Croesus

Question 33

776 B.C.

Answer 33

first Olympic games

Question 34

650 B.C.

Answer 34

Lycurgus

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Lycurgus

Question 36

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 36

Lycurgus

Question 37

Rule by the few.

Answer 37

oligarchy

Question 38

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 38

Helots

Question 39

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 39

Peloponnesus

Question 40

1200 B.C.

Answer 40

Trojan War