Part One Flashcards

1
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Great Pyramid is built in Egypt.

A

circā 2550 BCE

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2
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The first games are held at Olympia.

A

776 BCE

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3
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Temple of Artemis is constructed at Ephesus;

it will subsequently be destroyed more than once (by flood and by fire) and rebuilt.

A

circā 750 BCE

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4
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Walls and Hanging Gardens are built at Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar.

A

circā 600 BCE

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5
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Xerxes demolishes the Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

A

482 BCE

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6
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Temple of Zeus is open for the 90th Olympiad.

A

456 BCE

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7
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Phidias installs the Statue of Zeus in the temple at Olympia.

A

circā 432 BCE

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8
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The historian Herodotus dies.

A

circā 425 BCE

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9
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Herostratus burns down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus; Alexander the Great is born the same night.

The temple is subsequently rebuilt.

A

13–14 October, 356 BCE

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10
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Mausoleum is built at Halicarnassus.

A

circā 350 BCE

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11
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The city of Alexandria is founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great.

A

331 BCE

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12
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Alexander the Great dies at Babylon.

A

323 BCE

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13
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Celtic warlord Cimbaules makes incursions against the Macedonians and is repelled.

A

298 BCE

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14
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Colossus is completed at Rhodes.

A

circā 290 BCE

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15
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Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Pharos Lighthouse is built at Alexandria.

A

circā 280 BCE

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16
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Celts make a second incursion against Macedonia; Brennus attacks Delphi.

A

281–279 BCE

17
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Colossus falls.

A

227 BCE

18
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Antipater of Sidon is born.

A

circā 170 BCE

19
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The Roman general Mummius sacks Corinth, but spares Olympia; Carthage is destroyed by Rome.

A

146 BCE

20
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Posidonius is born in Syria.

A

circā 135 BCE

21
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Attalus III of Pergamon bequeaths his kingdom to Rome,

which establishes the province of Asia.

A

133 BCE

22
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Posidonius studies under Panaetius the Stoic in Athens.

A

circā 115 BCE

23
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

After travels in Spain, Gaul, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, North Africa, and Greece, Posidonius settles in Rhodes.

A

circā 90 BCE

24
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Rome sides with Nicomedes of Bithynia in his war against Mithridates of Pontus.

A

95 BCE

25
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Rome aids Nicomedes of Bithynia against Mithridates for the second time.

A

92 BCE

26
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Mithridates invades Bithynia, expels Nicomedes, and sets up Nicomedes’ brother Socrates as king; Ariobarzanes, the king of Cappadocia confirmed by the Romans, is usurped and replaced by the son of Mithridates, Ariaranthes Eusebes.

A

91 BCE

27
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Outbreak of the Social War, as the Italians revolt against Rome.

A

91 BCE

28
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

War begins between Rome and Mithridates.

A

89 BCE

29
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

Conclusion of the Social War;

Rome is triumphant over the rebellious Italians.

A

88 BCE

30
Q

Give the exact (or approximate) date for the following event:

The dictator Sulla moves the 175th Olympiad to Rome.

(The Games are afterward returned to Olympia.)

A

80 BCE