Lesson 22: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards
431-404 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
430 B.C.
plague at Athens
Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.
Lysander
He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.
Lysander
Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.
Thirty Tyrants
Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.
Alcibiades
How the Greeks dated time.
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games were held here.
Elis
443-429 B.C.
Pericles dominates Athenian politics
Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.
Peloponnesian War
He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Pericles
He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.
Herodotus
Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides
The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.
Pericles
He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.
Pericles
Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.
Attica
The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
Parthenon
The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.
Phidias
468 B.C.
Cimon defeats Persians
He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.
Cimon
The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.
Cimon
The port city of Athens.
Piraeus
Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.
Long Walls
The two legs of Greece.
Athens and Sparta
Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.
Aeschylus and Sophocles
Greek comic playwright.
Aristophanes
479 B.C.
battle of Plataea
This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.
Aristides
Last land battle of the Persian Wars.
Plataea
Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet.”
ostracism
Persian general during the Persian Wars.
Mardonius
Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea
Pausanias
Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.
Mycale
He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.
Themistocles
The wooden walls of Athens.
war ships
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
