The Ancients
Great Athenians
War with Persia
Peloponnesian War
I am Beowulf!
100
The built villages and a palace on the island of Crete around the year 2000 BCE.
Who are the Minoans?
100
He ended the hereditary aristocracy in 600 BCE and created the Council of Four Hundred.
Who is Solon?
100
He was the emperor of Persia, who attacked Athens for supporting the revolt of one of his colonies.
Who is Darius?
100
The union of city-states under Athens, resulting from the Persian Wars.
What is the Delian League?
100
This is the name of the people from which our hero hails.
Who are the Geats?
200
The great palace on Crete, said to house the Minotaur.
What is Knossus?
200
Though he fostered economic growth and development programs, this 550 BCE leader is known as a tyrant.
Who is Peisistratus?
200
The first victory by the Greeks in 490, which sent Pheidippides racing back to Athens.
What is Marathon?
200
It left the Athenian union in 470, but was made to return, and then lost its independence.
What is Naxos?
200
He was the king of the Danes, who suffered the curse of Grendel.
Who is Hrothgar?
300
This mainland polis came to dominate the relationship with Crete around the year 1450 BCE.
What is Mycenae?
300
Though he came to power as a tyrant, he regorganized the city and countryside into demes and formed the Council of Five Hundred.
Who is Cleisthenes?
300
He was Darius' son, who renewed attacks by sea and land in 480 BCE.
Who is Xerxes?
300
Though they were weaker, they chose to resist Athens, and were brutally suppressed, all the men losing their lives, the women put into slavery.
What is Melos?
300
This is the name of the mead hall, into which Grendel would steal and fill his hands with human flesh.
What is Heorot?
400
The great king of Mycenae, he led the Greek forces in the Trojan War.
Who is Agamemnon?
400
Author of Oedipus Rex, the play in which a man murders his father and marries his mother.
Who is Sophocles?
400
The battle where Spartan general, Leonides, and his troops lost their lives but gained the Athenians time.
What is Thermopylae.
400
The aging ruler of Athens who saw the beginning of the war in 432 BCE, when Sparta attacked.
Who is Pericles?
400
This is the Dane who questions Beowulf's race at sea.
Who is Unferth?
500
The mightiest of the Trojan warriors.
Who is Hektor?
500
The author of The Oresteia trilogy.
Who is Aeschylus?
500
The naval battle where, against Artemisia's better judgment, Xerxes attacked and won, but at a heavy cost.
What is Salamis?
500
The historian who recorded the events of this war.
Who is Thucydides?
500
This is the Danish king's right hand man.
Who is Aeschere?
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