Multiple Choice Questions Final Flashcards
The Athenians expelled the Persian garrison at Eion in _?
476 BCE
The Athenian naval empire is usually called the Delian League because
a. the Athenians established the League’s treasury on Delos
The Athenian state paid for the poor to attend the theater from a fund called
b. the theorikon
The reform of the Areopagus, in which key powers were transferred to the Council of Five Hundred, was instigated by
a. Ephialtes
Each year the Athenians elected officials to administer the ten tribes of Athens. These officials were known as
e. Phylarchs
The First Peloponnesian War was fought between
a. 460–445 BC
The Athenians may have negotiated a peace treaty with Persia in 449 BC, although this is not certain. The so-called peace is named for the Athenian ambassador who may have led the negotiations and was known as
b. Kallias
The northern Aegean was a focus of Athenian attention because
c. the region was rich in timber and metals
Cleruchies were an effective tool for reinforcing Athenian hegemony because
c. land in allied territories was now possessed directly by Athenians
Thucydides claims that the major source of discontent among Athens’ allies was
d. tribute
The original Athena temple on the Acropolis was destroyed by
the Persians
Around 414 BCE, the Athenians replaced the system of levying tribute with
a 5 percent tax on trade
Major buildings of the Periklean building programme included
the Parthenon and the Erechtheion
The Ionic frieze on the top of the Parthenon’s cella wall depicted
the Panathenaic procession
The most sacred area of the Akropolis was
the Erechtheion
In Hesiod’s explanation of how the gods first created women,
Hephaistos fashions the first woman from earth and water
Household slaves in Athens were referred to as
d. Oiketai
“God has left all men free; nature has made none a slave,” was said by
c. Alkidamas
The pursuit of high culture activities, such as poetry and philosophy, was possible because of the leisure time created by slave labor. The Greek term for these leisurely pursuits is
b. Scholê
Resident aliens living in Athens were subject to a tax referred to as the
a. Metoikion
Thucydides explicitly lays the blame for the Peloponnesian War
d. on Athens, whose growing power scared the Spartans
In the 430s BCE, the Megarian Decree
b. included Megara from the ports and markets of the Athenian empire
The cautious Spartan king at the outbreak of the war was
b. Archidamos
Periklean strategy consisted of two tenets:
c. rely on the walls for defense and the navy for supplies
