Lesson 33: Timeline and Drill Questions

Question 1

220-196 B.C.

Answer 1

first Roman victories in Greece

Question 2

146 B.C.

Answer 2

Greece becomes a Roman province

Question 3

The Romans sacked and burned this Greek city.

Answer 3

Corinth

Question 4

The two countries that conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 4

Macedonia and Rome

Question 5

The three Greek cities that tried to rule all of Greece.

Answer 5

Athens, Sparta, Thebes

Question 6

The world’s first and greatest teachers in the natural order.

Answer 6

Greeks

Question 7

222 B.C.

Answer 7

defeat of Sparta by Achaean League

Question 8

Restored the glory of Sparta 600 years after Lycurgus.

Answer 8

Cleomenes III

Question 9

League of Greek city-states that conquered Sparta.

Answer 9

Archaean League

Question 10

279 B.C.

Answer 10

Pyrrhus defeats Romans at Asculum

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Pyrrhus

Question 12

Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans

Answer 12

Archimedes

Question 13

Victory won with unacceptable losses.

Answer 13

pyrrhic victory

Question 14

The southern part of Italy was called this.

Answer 14

Magna Graecia

Question 15

This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome.

Answer 15

Carthage

Question 16

Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander.

Answer 16

Alexandria, Egypt

Question 17

This city had the greatest library in the ancient world.

Answer 17

Alexandria

Question 18

Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt

Answer 18

Ptolemy

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Ptolemy Philadelphus

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Septuagint

Question 21

Dynasty of Greek ruler sin Egypt.

Answer 21

Ptolemy

Question 22

Last of the Ptolemy line.

Answer 22

Cleopatra

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Phoenicia

Question 24

The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Answer 24

Suez Canal

Question 25

Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion.

Answer 25

Baal worship

Question 26

He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.

Answer 26

Diogenes

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Epicureanism

Question 28

Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.

Answer 28

Aristotle

Question 29

Aristotle’s most famous pupil.

Answer 29

Alexander

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Zeno

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Stoicism

Question 32

336 B.C.

Answer 32

death of Philip

Question 33

323 B.C.

Answer 33

death of Alexander

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Demosthenes

Question 35

Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.

Answer 35

Demosthenes

Question 36

He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.

Answer 36

Demosthenes

Question 37

A bitter denunciation of a man or party.

Answer 37

Philippic

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Demosthenes

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Alexander

Question 40

King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

Answer 40

Darius III

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Alexander

Question 42

The name of Alexander’s horse.

Answer 42

Bucephalus

Question 43

He cut the Gordian knot.

Answer 43

Alexander

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Thebes

Question 45

Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

Answer 45

Philip of Macedonia

Question 46

Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

Answer 46

phalanx

Question 47

371 B.C.

Answer 47

battle of Leuctra

Question 48

362 B.C.

Answer 48

battle of Mantinea

Question 49

Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

Answer 49

Epaminondas and Pelopidas

Question 50

401 B.C.

Answer 50

battle of Cunaxa

Question 51

399 B.C.

Answer 51

trial and death of Socrates

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Anabasis

Question 54

Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

Answer 54

Artaxerxes

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Xenophon

Question 56

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

Answer 56

Cyrus

Question 57

He drank hemlock cheerfully.

Answer 57

Socrates

Question 58

The love of wisdom.

Answer 58

philosphy

Question 59

The ugliest person in all of Greece.

Answer 59

Socrates

Question 60

Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

Answer 60

Plato

Question 61

Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

Answer 61

Socratic Method

Question 62

Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

Answer 62

the Academy

Question 63

431-404 B.C.

Answer 63

Peloponnesian War

Question 64

430 B.C.

Answer 64

plague at Athens

Question 65

Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

Answer 65

Lysander

Question 66

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

Answer 66

Lysander

Question 67

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

Answer 67

Thirty Tyrants

Question 68

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

Answer 68

Alcibiades

Question 69

How the Greeks dated time.

Answer 69

Olympic Games

Question 70

The Olympic Games were held here.

Answer 70

Elis

Question 71

443-429 B.C.

Answer 71

Pericles dominates Athenian politics

Question 72

Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

Answer 72

Peloponnesian War

Question 73

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

Answer 73

Pericles

Question 74

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

Answer 74

Herodotus

Question 75

Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 75

Thucydides

Question 76

The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

Answer 76

Pericles

Question 77

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

Answer 77

Pericles

Question 78

Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

Answer 78

Attica

Question 79

The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

Answer 79

Parthenon

Question 80

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

Answer 80

Phidias

Question 81

468 B.C.

Answer 81

Cimon defeats Persians

Question 82

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

Answer 82

Cimon

Question 83

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

Answer 83

Cimon

Question 84

The port city of Athens.

Answer 84

Piraeus

Question 85

Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

Answer 85

Long Walls

Question 86

The two legs of Greece.

Answer 86

Athens and Sparta

Question 87

Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

Answer 87

Aeschylus and Sophocles

Question 88

Greek comic playwright.

Answer 88

Aristophanes

Question 89

479 B.C.

Answer 89

battle of Plataea

Question 90

This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

Answer 90

Aristides

Question 91

Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 91

Plataea

Question 92

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

Answer 92

ostracism

Question 93

Persian general during the Persian Wars.

Answer 93

Mardonius

Question 94

Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

Answer 94

Pausanias

Question 95

Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

Answer 95

Mycale

Question 96

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

Answer 96

Themistocles

Question 97

The wooden walls of Athens.

Answer 97

war ships

Question 98

480 B.C.

Answer 98

battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

Question 99

The hero of Thermopylae.

Answer 99

Leonidas

Question 100

Elite Spartan military force.

Answer 100

Spartan 300

Question 101

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

Answer 101

Xerxes

Question 102

The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

Answer 102

Hellespont

Question 103

490 B.C.

Answer 103

battle of Marathon

Question 104

King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

Answer 104

Darius

Question 105

The hero of Marathon.

Answer 105

Miltiades

Question 106

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

Answer 106

Phidippides

Question 107

560 B.C.

Answer 107

coup of Pisistratus

Question 108

527 B.C.

Answer 108

death of Pisistratus

Question 109

Rule by magistrates or councils.

Answer 109

republic

Question 110

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

Answer 110

Pisistratus

Question 111

The Acropolis was in this city.

Answer 111

Athens

Question 112

The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

Answer 112

olive tree

Question 113

The citadel of Athens.

Answer 113

Acropolis

Question 114

The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

Answer 114

Sparta

Question 115

624 B.C.

Answer 115

Draco’s code

Question 116

594 B.C.

Answer 116

Solon’s reforms

Question 117

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

Answer 117

Draco

Question 118

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

Answer 118

Solon

Question 119

Rule by the many.

Answer 119

democracy

Question 120

Rich king of Lydia.

Answer 120

Croesus

Question 121

776 B.C.

Answer 121

first Olympic games

Question 122

650 B.C.

Answer 122

Lycurgus

Question 123

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

Answer 123

Lycurgus

Question 124

His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

Answer 124

Lycurgus

Question 125

Rule by the few.

Answer 125

oligarchy

Question 126

The slaves of the Spartans.

Answer 126

Helots

Question 127

The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

Answer 127

Peloponnesus

Question 128

1200 B.C.

Answer 128

Trojan War