Lesson 32: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

222 B.C.

Answer 1

defeat of Sparta by Achaean League

Question 2

Restored the glory of Sparta 600 years after Lycurgus.

Answer 2

Cleomenes III

Question 3

League of Greek city-states that conquered Sparta.

Answer 3

Archaean League

Question 4

279 B.C.

Answer 4

Pyrrhus defeats Romans at Asculum

Question 5

King from Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander.

Answer 5

Pyrrhus

Question 6

Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans

Answer 6

Archimedes

Question 7

Victory won with unacceptable losses.

Answer 7

pyrrhic victory

Question 8

The southern part of Italy was called this.

Answer 8

Magna Graecia

Question 9

This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome.

Answer 9

Carthage

Question 10

Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander.

Answer 10

Alexandria, Egypt

Question 11

This city had the greatest library in the ancient world.

Answer 11

Alexandria

Question 12

Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt

Answer 12

Ptolemy

Question 13

He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek.

Answer 13

Ptolemy Philadelphus

Question 14

The Greek Translation of the Bible, translated by 70 scholars in 70 days.

Answer 14

Septuagint

Question 15

Dynasty of Greek ruler sin Egypt.

Answer 15

Ptolemy

Question 16

Last of the Ptolemy line.

Answer 16

Cleopatra

Question 17

Teh country that invented the alphabet and was great city of commerce.

Answer 17

Phoenicia

Question 18

The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Answer 18

Suez Canal

Question 19

Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion.

Answer 19

Baal worship

Question 20

He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.

Answer 20

Diogenes

Question 21

Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.

Answer 21

Epicureanism

Question 22

Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.

Answer 22

Aristotle

Question 23

Aristotle’s most famous pupil.

Answer 23

Alexander

Question 24

He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name.

Answer 24

Zeno

Question 25

Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling.

Answer 25

Stoicism

Question 26

336 B.C.

Answer 26

death of Philip

Question 27

323 B.C.

Answer 27

death of Alexander

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Demosthenes

Question 29

Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.

Answer 29

Demosthenes

Question 30

He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.

Answer 30

Demosthenes

Question 31

A bitter denunciation of a man or party.

Answer 31

Philippic

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Demosthenes

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Alexander

Question 34

King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

Answer 34

Darius III

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Alexander

Question 36

The name of Alexander’s horse.

Answer 36

Bucephalus

Question 37

He cut the Gordian knot.

Answer 37

Alexander

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Thebes

Question 39

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 39

Philip of Macedonia

Question 40

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 40

phalanx

Question 41

371 B.C.

Answer 41

battle of Leuctra

Question 42

362 B.C.

Answer 42

battle of Mantinea

Question 43

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 43

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 44

401 B.C.

Answer 44

battle of Cunaxa

Question 45

399 B.C.

Answer 45

trial and death of Socrates

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Anabasis

Question 48

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 48

Artaxerxes

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Xenophon

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Cyrus

Question 51

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 51

Socrates

Question 52

The love of wisdom.

Answer 52

philosphy

Question 53

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 53

Socrates

Question 54

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 54

Plato

Question 55

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 55

Socratic Method

Question 56

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 56

the Academy

Question 57

431-404 B.C.

Answer 57

Peloponnesian War

Question 58

430 B.C.

Answer 58

plague at Athens

Question 59

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 59

Lysander

Question 60

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

Answer 60

Lysander

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Thirty Tyrants

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Alcibiades

Question 63

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 63

Olympic Games

Question 64

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 64

Elis

Question 65

443-429 B.C.

Answer 65

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 66

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 66

Peloponnesian War

Question 67

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

Answer 67

Pericles

Question 68

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

Answer 68

Herodotus

Question 69

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 69

Thucydides

Question 70

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 70

Pericles

Question 71

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

Answer 71

Pericles

Question 72

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 72

Attica

Question 73

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 73

Parthenon

Question 74

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

Answer 74

Phidias

Question 75

468 B.C.

Answer 75

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 76

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

Answer 76

Cimon

Question 77

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

Answer 77

Cimon

Question 78

The port city of Athens.

Answer 78

Piraeus

Question 79

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 79

Long Walls

Question 80

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 80

Athens and Sparta

Question 81

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 81

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 82

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 82

Aristophanes

Question 83

479 B.C.

Answer 83

battle of Plataea

Question 84

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 84

Aristides

Question 85

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 85

Plataea

Question 86

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

Answer 86

ostracism

Question 87

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 87

Mardonius

Question 88

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 88

Pausanias

Question 89

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 89

Mycale

Question 90

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

Answer 90

Themistocles

Question 91

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 91

war ships

Question 92

480 B.C.

Answer 92

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 93

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 93

Leonidas

Question 94

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 94

Spartan 300

Question 95

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

Answer 95

Xerxes

Question 96

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 96

Hellespont

Question 97

490 B.C.

Answer 97

battle of Marathon

Question 98

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 98

Darius

Question 99

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 99

Miltiades

Question 100

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

Answer 100

Phidippides

Question 101

560 B.C.

Answer 101

coup of Pisistratus

Question 102

527 B.C.

Answer 102

death of Pisistratus

Question 103

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 103

republic

Question 104

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

Answer 104

Pisistratus

Question 105

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 105

Athens

Question 106

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 106

olive tree

Question 107

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 107

Acropolis

Question 108

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 108

Sparta

Question 109

624 B.C.

Answer 109

Draco’s code

Question 110

594 B.C.

Answer 110

Solon’s reforms

Question 111

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

Answer 111

Draco

Question 112

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

Answer 112

Solon

Question 113

Rule by the many.

Answer 113

democracy

Question 114

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 114

Croesus

Question 115

776 B.C.

Answer 115

first Olympic games

Question 116

650 B.C.

Answer 116

Lycurgus

Question 117

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

Answer 117

Lycurgus

Question 118

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 118

Lycurgus

Question 119

Rule by the few.

Answer 119

oligarchy

Question 120

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 120

Helots

Question 121

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 121

Peloponnesus

Question 122

1200 B.C.

Answer 122

Trojan War