Athens and Sparta
What is a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files a body of troops in a close array?
Phalanx
What concept of learning came out of Athens during their golden age?
Philosophy
What was one way that Darius the First retained the loyalty of those he conquered?
Allowed conquered lands to keep their kings and nobles so long as the paid taxes.
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta
What city state was never defeated by Philip II and his Army?
Sparta
Young males in Sparta, ages 7 to 14, had to perform daily vigorous exercise. What was this called?
Agoge
Who wrote the book "the Histories" explaining the events of the Persian War?
The Persian king divided their empire in provinces. What were these provinces called?
Satrapies
Who led a Greek coalition force to stop the second Persian invasion at Thermopylae?
Leonidas
Where did Philip II defeat Thebes and Athens, expanding his influence and control of Greece?
Chaeronea
Who was credited with creating the concept of Democracy?
Draco
What is the bias of the person witnessing or participating in an historical event?
Historical Bias
Who had a library of over 20,000 clay tablets?
King Ashurbanipal
During the Persian Invasion led by Xerxes a Politician named Themistocles led the Athenian people where?
Salamis
How large was the Army that Alexander the Great led into Persia?
35,000
What crop was critical to ancient Athenians since it had many uses?
To this philosopher Forms are abstract objects, existing completely outside space and time.
Plato
Why did Assyria aggressively expand their empire?
Response to invaders
What was the political outcome of the Persian war for Greece?
What was the result of the conquest of Alexander the Great?
A unified language which opened India, Persia, Egypt, and Greece to a cultural exchange known as the Hellenistic Period.
Who was considered the servant class in Sparta that was used for agriculture?
Helots
(Daily Double)
Name four of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
Great Pyramid at Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus
Temple of Artemis
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria
The concept of centralized power administered through trusted officials was developed by who?
Sargon the Great
What started the Persian Wars?
Ionian revolts in Anatolia supported by Athens.
During the Hellenistic period, what was the primary language used that would allow for the spread of culture and ideas?
Greek