Lesson 23: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 1

Socrates

Question 2

The love of wisdom.

Answer 2

philosphy

Question 3

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 3

Socrates

Question 4

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 4

Plato

Question 5

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 5

Socratic Method

Question 6

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 6

the Academy

Question 7

431-404 B.C.

Answer 7

Peloponnesian War

Question 8

430 B.C.

Answer 8

plague at Athens

Question 9

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 9

Lysander

Question 10

He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.

Answer 10

Lysander

Question 11

Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.

Answer 11

Thirty Tyrants

Question 12

Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.

Answer 12

Alcibiades

Question 13

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 13

Olympic Games

Question 14

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 14

Elis

Question 15

443-429 B.C.

Answer 15

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 16

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 16

Peloponnesian War

Question 17

He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

Answer 17

Pericles

Question 18

He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.

Answer 18

Herodotus

Question 19

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 19

Thucydides

Question 20

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 20

Pericles

Question 21

He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.

Answer 21

Pericles

Question 22

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 22

Attica

Question 23

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 23

Parthenon

Question 24

The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.

Answer 24

Phidias

Question 25

468 B.C.

Answer 25

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Cimon

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Cimon

Question 28

The port city of Athens.

Answer 28

Piraeus

Question 29

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 29

Long Walls

Question 30

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 30

Athens and Sparta

Question 31

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 31

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 32

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 32

Aristophanes

Question 33

479 B.C.

Answer 33

battle of Plataea

Question 34

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 34

Aristides

Question 35

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 35

Plataea

Question 36

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

Answer 36

ostracism

Question 37

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 37

Mardonius

Question 38

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 38

Pausanias

Question 39

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 39

Mycale

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Themistocles

Question 41

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 41

war ships

Question 42

480 B.C.

Answer 42

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 43

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 43

Leonidas

Question 44

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 44

Spartan 300

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Xerxes

Question 46

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 46

Hellespont

Question 47

490 B.C.

Answer 47

battle of Marathon

Question 48

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 48

Darius

Question 49

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 49

Miltiades

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Phidippides

Question 51

560 B.C.

Answer 51

coup of Pisistratus

Question 52

527 B.C.

Answer 52

death of Pisistratus

Question 53

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 53

republic

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Pisistratus

Question 55

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 55

Athens

Question 56

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 56

olive tree

Question 57

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 57

Acropolis

Question 58

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 58

Sparta

Question 59

624 B.C.

Answer 59

Draco’s code

Question 60

594 B.C.

Answer 60

Solon’s reforms

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Draco

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Solon

Question 63

Rule by the many.

Answer 63

democracy

Question 64

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 64

Croesus

Question 65

776 B.C.

Answer 65

first Olympic games

Question 66

650 B.C.

Answer 66

Lycurgus

Question 67

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

Answer 67

Lycurgus

Question 68

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 68

Lycurgus

Question 69

Rule by the few.

Answer 69

oligarchy

Question 70

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 70

Helots

Question 71

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 71

Peloponnesus

Question 72

1200 B.C.

Answer 72

Trojan War