Lesson 26: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 1

Philip of Macedonia

Question 2

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 2

phalanx

Question 3

371 B.C.

Answer 3

battle of Leuctra

Question 4

362 B.C.

Answer 4

battle of Mantinea

Question 5

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 5

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 6

401 B.C.

Answer 6

battle of Cunaxa

Question 7

399 B.C.

Answer 7

trial and death of Socrates

Question 8

Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.

Answer 8

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 9

Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000.

Answer 9

Anabasis

Question 10

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 10

Artaxerxes

Question 11

Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia.

Answer 11

Xenophon

Question 12

Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother’s throne.

Answer 12

Cyrus

Question 13

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 13

Socrates

Question 14

The love of wisdom.

Answer 14

philosphy

Question 15

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 15

Socrates

Question 16

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 16

Plato

Question 17

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 17

Socratic Method

Question 18

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 18

the Academy

Question 19

431-404 B.C.

Answer 19

Peloponnesian War

Question 20

430 B.C.

Answer 20

plague at Athens

Question 21

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 21

Lysander

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Lysander

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Thirty Tyrants

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Alcibiades

Question 25

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 25

Olympic Games

Question 26

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 26

Elis

Question 27

443-429 B.C.

Answer 27

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 28

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 28

Peloponnesian War

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Pericles

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Herodotus

Question 31

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 31

Thucydides

Question 32

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 32

Pericles

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Pericles

Question 34

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 34

Attica

Question 35

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 35

Parthenon

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Phidias

Question 37

468 B.C.

Answer 37

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Cimon

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Cimon

Question 40

The port city of Athens.

Answer 40

Piraeus

Question 41

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 41

Long Walls

Question 42

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 42

Athens and Sparta

Question 43

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 43

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 44

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 44

Aristophanes

Question 45

479 B.C.

Answer 45

battle of Plataea

Question 46

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 46

Aristides

Question 47

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 47

Plataea

Question 48

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

Answer 48

ostracism

Question 49

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 49

Mardonius

Question 50

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 50

Pausanias

Question 51

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 51

Mycale

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Themistocles

Question 53

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 53

war ships

Question 54

480 B.C.

Answer 54

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 55

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 55

Leonidas

Question 56

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 56

Spartan 300

Question 57

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

Answer 57

Xerxes

Question 58

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 58

Hellespont

Question 59

490 B.C.

Answer 59

battle of Marathon

Question 60

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 60

Darius

Question 61

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 61

Miltiades

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Phidippides

Question 63

560 B.C.

Answer 63

coup of Pisistratus

Question 64

527 B.C.

Answer 64

death of Pisistratus

Question 65

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 65

republic

Question 66

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

Answer 66

Pisistratus

Question 67

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 67

Athens

Question 68

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 68

olive tree

Question 69

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 69

Acropolis

Question 70

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 70

Sparta

Question 71

624 B.C.

Answer 71

Draco’s code

Question 72

594 B.C.

Answer 72

Solon’s reforms

Question 73

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

Answer 73

Draco

Question 74

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

Answer 74

Solon

Question 75

Rule by the many.

Answer 75

democracy

Question 76

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 76

Croesus

Question 77

776 B.C.

Answer 77

first Olympic games

Question 78

650 B.C.

Answer 78

Lycurgus

Question 79

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

Answer 79

Lycurgus

Question 80

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 80

Lycurgus

Question 81

Rule by the few.

Answer 81

oligarchy

Question 82

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 82

Helots

Question 83

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 83

Peloponnesus

Question 84

1200 B.C.

Answer 84

Trojan War