Lesson 28: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

336 B.C.

Answer 1

death of Philip

Question 2

323 B.C.

Answer 2

death of Alexander

Question 3

He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens.

Answer 3

Demosthenes

Question 4

Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.

Answer 4

Demosthenes

Question 5

He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.

Answer 5

Demosthenes

Question 6

A bitter denunciation of a man or party.

Answer 6

Philippic

Question 7

He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians.

Answer 7

Demosthenes

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Alexander

Question 9

King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

Answer 9

Darius III

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Alexander

Question 11

The name of Alexander’s horse.

Answer 11

Bucephalus

Question 12

He cut the Gordian knot.

Answer 12

Alexander

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Thebes

Question 14

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 14

Philip of Macedonia

Question 15

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 15

phalanx

Question 16

371 B.C.

Answer 16

battle of Leuctra

Question 17

362 B.C.

Answer 17

battle of Mantinea

Question 18

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 18

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 19

401 B.C.

Answer 19

battle of Cunaxa

Question 20

399 B.C.

Answer 20

trial and death of Socrates

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Anabasis

Question 23

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 23

Artaxerxes

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Xenophon

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Cyrus

Question 26

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 26

Socrates

Question 27

The love of wisdom.

Answer 27

philosphy

Question 28

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 28

Socrates

Question 29

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 29

Plato

Question 30

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 30

Socratic Method

Question 31

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 31

the Academy

Question 32

431-404 B.C.

Answer 32

Peloponnesian War

Question 33

430 B.C.

Answer 33

plague at Athens

Question 34

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 34

Lysander

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Lysander

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Thirty Tyrants

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Alcibiades

Question 38

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 38

Olympic Games

Question 39

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 39

Elis

Question 40

443-429 B.C.

Answer 40

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 41

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 41

Peloponnesian War

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Pericles

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Herodotus

Question 44

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 44

Thucydides

Question 45

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 45

Pericles

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Pericles

Question 47

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 47

Attica

Question 48

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 48

Parthenon

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Phidias

Question 50

468 B.C.

Answer 50

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Cimon

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Cimon

Question 53

The port city of Athens.

Answer 53

Piraeus

Question 54

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 54

Long Walls

Question 55

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 55

Athens and Sparta

Question 56

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 56

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 57

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 57

Aristophanes

Question 58

479 B.C.

Answer 58

battle of Plataea

Question 59

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 59

Aristides

Question 60

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 60

Plataea

Question 61

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

Answer 61

ostracism

Question 62

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 62

Mardonius

Question 63

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 63

Pausanias

Question 64

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 64

Mycale

Question 65

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

Answer 65

Themistocles

Question 66

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 66

war ships

Question 67

480 B.C.

Answer 67

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 68

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 68

Leonidas

Question 69

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 69

Spartan 300

Question 70

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

Answer 70

Xerxes

Question 71

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 71

Hellespont

Question 72

490 B.C.

Answer 72

battle of Marathon

Question 73

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 73

Darius

Question 74

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 74

Miltiades

Question 75

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

Answer 75

Phidippides

Question 76

560 B.C.

Answer 76

coup of Pisistratus

Question 77

527 B.C.

Answer 77

death of Pisistratus

Question 78

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 78

republic

Question 79

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

Answer 79

Pisistratus

Question 80

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 80

Athens

Question 81

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 81

olive tree

Question 82

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 82

Acropolis

Question 83

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 83

Sparta

Question 84

624 B.C.

Answer 84

Draco’s code

Question 85

594 B.C.

Answer 85

Solon’s reforms

Question 86

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

Answer 86

Draco

Question 87

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

Answer 87

Solon

Question 88

Rule by the many.

Answer 88

democracy

Question 89

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 89

Croesus

Question 90

776 B.C.

Answer 90

first Olympic games

Question 91

650 B.C.

Answer 91

Lycurgus

Question 92

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

Answer 92

Lycurgus

Question 93

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 93

Lycurgus

Question 94

Rule by the few.

Answer 94

oligarchy

Question 95

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 95

Helots

Question 96

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 96

Peloponnesus

Question 97

1200 B.C.

Answer 97

Trojan War