Lesson 27: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

He could recite the “Illiad” from beginning to end.

Answer 1

Alexander

Question 2

King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

Answer 2

Darius III

Question 3

He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer.

Answer 3

Alexander

Question 4

The name of Alexander’s horse.

Answer 4

Bucephalus

Question 5

He cut the Gordian knot.

Answer 5

Alexander

Question 6

Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground.

Answer 6

Thebes

Question 7

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 7

Philip of Macedonia

Question 8

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 8

phalanx

Question 9

371 B.C.

Answer 9

battle of Leuctra

Question 10

362 B.C.

Answer 10

battle of Mantinea

Question 11

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 11

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 12

401 B.C.

Answer 12

battle of Cunaxa

Question 13

399 B.C.

Answer 13

trial and death of Socrates

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Anabasis

Question 16

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 16

Artaxerxes

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Xenophon

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Cyrus

Question 19

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 19

Socrates

Question 20

The love of wisdom.

Answer 20

philosphy

Question 21

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 21

Socrates

Question 22

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 22

Plato

Question 23

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 23

Socratic Method

Question 24

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 24

the Academy

Question 25

431-404 B.C.

Answer 25

Peloponnesian War

Question 26

430 B.C.

Answer 26

plague at Athens

Question 27

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 27

Lysander

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Lysander

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Thirty Tyrants

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Alcibiades

Question 31

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 31

Olympic Games

Question 32

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 32

Elis

Question 33

443-429 B.C.

Answer 33

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 34

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 34

Peloponnesian War

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Pericles

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Herodotus

Question 37

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 37

Thucydides

Question 38

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 38

Pericles

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Pericles

Question 40

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 40

Attica

Question 41

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 41

Parthenon

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Phidias

Question 43

468 B.C.

Answer 43

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Cimon

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Cimon

Question 46

The port city of Athens.

Answer 46

Piraeus

Question 47

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 47

Long Walls

Question 48

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 48

Athens and Sparta

Question 49

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 49

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 50

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 50

Aristophanes

Question 51

479 B.C.

Answer 51

battle of Plataea

Question 52

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 52

Aristides

Question 53

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 53

Plataea

Question 54

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

Answer 54

ostracism

Question 55

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 55

Mardonius

Question 56

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 56

Pausanias

Question 57

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 57

Mycale

Question 58

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

Answer 58

Themistocles

Question 59

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 59

war ships

Question 60

480 B.C.

Answer 60

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 61

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 61

Leonidas

Question 62

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 62

Spartan 300

Question 63

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

Answer 63

Xerxes

Question 64

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 64

Hellespont

Question 65

490 B.C.

Answer 65

battle of Marathon

Question 66

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 66

Darius

Question 67

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 67

Miltiades

Question 68

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

Answer 68

Phidippides

Question 69

560 B.C.

Answer 69

coup of Pisistratus

Question 70

527 B.C.

Answer 70

death of Pisistratus

Question 71

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 71

republic

Question 72

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

Answer 72

Pisistratus

Question 73

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 73

Athens

Question 74

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 74

olive tree

Question 75

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 75

Acropolis

Question 76

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 76

Sparta

Question 77

624 B.C.

Answer 77

Draco’s code

Question 78

594 B.C.

Answer 78

Solon’s reforms

Question 79

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

Answer 79

Draco

Question 80

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

Answer 80

Solon

Question 81

Rule by the many.

Answer 81

democracy

Question 82

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 82

Croesus

Question 83

776 B.C.

Answer 83

first Olympic games

Question 84

650 B.C.

Answer 84

Lycurgus

Question 85

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

Answer 85

Lycurgus

Question 86

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 86

Lycurgus

Question 87

Rule by the few.

Answer 87

oligarchy

Question 88

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 88

Helots

Question 89

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 89

Peloponnesus

Question 90

1200 B.C.

Answer 90

Trojan War