Lesson 19: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

468 B.C.

Answer 1

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 2

He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.

Answer 2

Cimon

Question 3

The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.

Answer 3

Cimon

Question 4

The port city of Athens.

Answer 4

Piraeus

Question 5

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 5

Long Walls

Question 6

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 6

Athens and Sparta

Question 7

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 7

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 8

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 8

Aristophanes

Question 9

479 B.C.

Answer 9

battle of Plataea

Question 10

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 10

Aristides

Question 11

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 11

Plataea

Question 12

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

Answer 12

ostracism

Question 13

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 13

Mardonius

Question 14

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 14

Pausanias

Question 15

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 15

Mycale

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Themistocles

Question 17

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 17

war ships

Question 18

480 B.C.

Answer 18

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 19

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 19

Leonidas

Question 20

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 20

Spartan 300

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Xerxes

Question 22

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 22

Hellespont

Question 23

490 B.C.

Answer 23

battle of Marathon

Question 24

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 24

Darius

Question 25

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 25

Miltiades

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Phidippides

Question 27

560 B.C.

Answer 27

coup of Pisistratus

Question 28

527 B.C.

Answer 28

death of Pisistratus

Question 29

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 29

republic

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Pisistratus

Question 31

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 31

Athens

Question 32

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 32

olive tree

Question 33

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 33

Acropolis

Question 34

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 34

Sparta

Question 35

624 B.C.

Answer 35

Draco’s code

Question 36

594 B.C.

Answer 36

Solon’s reforms

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Draco

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Solon

Question 39

Rule by the many.

Answer 39

democracy

Question 40

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 40

Croesus

Question 41

776 B.C.

Answer 41

first Olympic games

Question 42

650 B.C.

Answer 42

Lycurgus

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Lycurgus

Question 44

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 44

Lycurgus

Question 45

Rule by the few.

Answer 45

oligarchy

Question 46

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 46

Helots

Question 47

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 47

Peloponnesus

Question 48

1200 B.C.

Answer 48

Trojan War