Lesson 33: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards
220-196 B.C.
first Roman victories in Greece
146 B.C.
Greece becomes a Roman province
The Romans sacked and burned this Greek city.
Corinth
The two countries that conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War.
Macedonia and Rome
The three Greek cities that tried to rule all of Greece.
Athens, Sparta, Thebes
The world’s first and greatest teachers in the natural order.
Greeks
222 B.C.
defeat of Sparta by Achaean League
Restored the glory of Sparta 600 years after Lycurgus.
Cleomenes III
League of Greek city-states that conquered Sparta.
Archaean League
279 B.C.
Pyrrhus defeats Romans at Asculum
King from Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander.
Pyrrhus
Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans
Archimedes
Victory won with unacceptable losses.
pyrrhic victory
The southern part of Italy was called this.
Magna Graecia
This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome.
Carthage
Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander.
Alexandria, Egypt
This city had the greatest library in the ancient world.
Alexandria
Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt
Ptolemy
He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek.
Ptolemy Philadelphus
The Greek Translation of the Bible, translated by 70 scholars in 70 days.
Septuagint
Dynasty of Greek ruler sin Egypt.
Ptolemy
Last of the Ptolemy line.
Cleopatra
Teh country that invented the alphabet and was great city of commerce.
Phoenicia
The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
Suez Canal
Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion.
Baal worship
He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.
Diogenes
Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.
Epicureanism
Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.
Aristotle
Aristotle’s most famous pupil.
Alexander
He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name.
Zeno
Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling.
Stoicism
336 B.C.
death of Philip
323 B.C.
death of Alexander
He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens.
Demosthenes
Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.
Demosthenes
He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.
Demosthenes
A bitter denunciation of a man or party.
Philippic
He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians.
Demosthenes
He could recite the “Illiad” from beginning to end.
Alexander
King of Persia defeated by Alexander.
Darius III
He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer.
Alexander
The name of Alexander’s horse.
Bucephalus
He cut the Gordian knot.
Alexander
Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground.
Thebes
Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.
Philip of Macedonia
Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.
phalanx
371 B.C.
battle of Leuctra
362 B.C.
battle of Mantinea
Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta
Epaminondas and Pelopidas
401 B.C.
battle of Cunaxa
399 B.C.
trial and death of Socrates
Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.
Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus
Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000.
Anabasis
Persian king during the March of the 10,000.
Artaxerxes
Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia.
Xenophon
Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother’s throne.
Cyrus
He drank hemlock cheerfully.
Socrates
The love of wisdom.
philosphy
The ugliest person in all of Greece.
Socrates
Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.
Plato
Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.
Socratic Method
Plato’s open-air school at Athens.
the Academy
431-404 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
430 B.C.
plague at Athens
Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.
Lysander
He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.
Lysander
Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.
Thirty Tyrants
Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.
Alcibiades
How the Greeks dated time.
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games were held here.
Elis
443-429 B.C.
Pericles dominates Athenian politics
Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.
Peloponnesian War
He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Pericles
He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.
Herodotus
Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides
The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.
Pericles
He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.
Pericles
Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.
Attica
The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis
Parthenon
The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.
Phidias
468 B.C.
Cimon defeats Persians
He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.
Cimon
The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.
Cimon
The port city of Athens.
Piraeus
Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.
Long Walls
The two legs of Greece.
Athens and Sparta
Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.
Aeschylus and Sophocles
Greek comic playwright.
Aristophanes
479 B.C.
battle of Plataea
This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.
Aristides
Last land battle of the Persian Wars.
Plataea
Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet.”
ostracism
Persian general during the Persian Wars.
Mardonius
Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea
Pausanias
Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.
Mycale
He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.
Themistocles
The wooden walls of Athens.
war ships
480 B.C.
battles of Thermopylae, Salamis
The hero of Thermopylae.
Leonidas
Elite Spartan military force.
Spartan 300
He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.
Xerxes
The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.
Hellespont
490 B.C.
battle of Marathon
King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.
Darius
The hero of Marathon.
Miltiades
He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians
Phidippides
560 B.C.
coup of Pisistratus
527 B.C.
death of Pisistratus
Rule by magistrates or councils.
republic
Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.
Pisistratus
The Acropolis was in this city.
Athens
The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis
olive tree
The citadel of Athens.
Acropolis
The only state in Greece that never became a republic.
Sparta
624 B.C.
Draco’s code
594 B.C.
Solon’s reforms
It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.
Draco
The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.
Solon
Rule by the many.
democracy
Rich king of Lydia.
Croesus
776 B.C.
first Olympic games
650 B.C.
Lycurgus
He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.
Lycurgus
His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.
Lycurgus
Rule by the few.
oligarchy
The slaves of the Spartans.
Helots
The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand
Peloponnesus
1200 B.C.
Trojan War
