Chapter Four: Ancient Greece
Section Three: Conflict in the Greek World
The Persian Wars
1.
Where did the Persian conquer? Who were their subjects?
2.
What happened in 499BC? Who sent aid?
3.
Why did Darius I seek revenge and on whom?
4.
What happened at Marathon in 490BC?
5.
Who is Themistocles and what did he urge the Athenians to do?
6.
Who is Xerxes and what did he do in 480BC?
7.
What occurred at Thermopylae?
8.
Who is Leonidas?
9.
What did the Persians find when they got to Athens? What did they do anyway?
10.
What occurred at Salamis?
11.
Who won the war?
12.
Who emerged as the most powerful city-state?
13.
Define Alliance.
14.
What is the Delian League?
15.
List FIVE things Athens did after gaining control of the military.
The Age of Pericles and Direct Democracy
16.
What time period is known as Athens Golden Age?
17.
Who is Pericles?
18.
What is a direct democracy?
19.
How is an indirect democracy different?
20.
Who should take part in the government according to Pericles?
21.
What is a stipend and what did this reform enable poor men to do?
22.
What is a jury?
23.
How were Athenian juries different from modern day juries?
24.
Explain Ostracism.
25.
What are FIVE cultural things that developed under Pericles?
The Peloponnesian War
26.
What had Sparta created in response to the Delian League?
27.
Who fought in the Peloponnesian War? How long did it last?
28.
What geographical disadvantage did Athens have?
29.
What killed many Athenians, including Pericles?
30.
Who did the Spartans ally themselves with?
31.
What happened in 404BC?
32.
What was Athens’s situation after the war?
33.
Who was beginning to rise up by 359BC?