The Persians were a small tribe that is now in this present-day country.
What is Iran?
100
This king was the son of King Darius.
Who is King Xerxes?
100
When King Darius sent messengers to Greece to ask for tribute, the Greeks did this to the messengers.
What is threw the messenger into pits and wells?
100
After the defeat at Salamis; Xerxes discovered this had happened to the bridges he had built.
What is they had been wrecked by a fierce storm?
200
This battle marked the beginning of the Greek-Persian Wars.
What is the Ionian Revolt?
200
Name 2 or more of the areas conquered by the Persians.
What are Mesopotamia; Asia Minor; Syria; Europe; and parts of India?
200
When Xerxes decided to attack Greece, these 2 city states banded together to fight him.
What Athens and Sparta?
200
The Greeks and Persians fought at Marathon and the Athenians sent Pheidippides to Sparta. Describe what Pheidippides did that makes him famous even today.
What is he ran for 2 days and nights between Marathon and Sparta?
200
True or false: The Athenians deserted the Greeks.
What is false; they fought and supported Greece.
300
This is a long, narrow body of water between Europe and Asia in what is now present-day Turkey.
What is the Hellespont?
300
King Darius divided the empire into 20 sections or provinces known as these.
What are satrapies?
300
A Greek traitor made an offer to the Persians during the war. Name the offer.
What is he offered to show the Persians a secret path through the mountains that would allow them to attack the Greek from the front and rear at the same time?
300
True or false: the Persians won the Battle of Marathon.
What is false? (the Greeks won the battle).
300
Led by this city-state, a force of 80,000 Greek troops finally destroyed the Persian army.
What is Sparta?
400
Soldiers who ride on horses.
What is a cavalry?
400
The Ionians had to pay tributes to the Persians; and the men also had to perform this service.
What is serve in the Persian army?
400
Describe what the 300 did.
What is their King ordered his army to leave except for 300 soldiers who fought the Persians with weapons and then their bare hands until the very end? (they never left their posts!)
400
This is the name of the Greek general who was in charge of the army at Marathon.
Who is Miltiades?
400
The final victory of the Greeks led to this action.
What is Greece stayed independent; and kept Persia from conquering all of Europe?
500
The conflict between Persia and the Greek city-states between 499 and 479 BCE.
What is the Persian Wars?
500
When the Ionians were left on their own, the Persians punished them for revolting by doing this.
What is destroying the city of Miletus and sold some of the people into slavery?
500
The 300 fought a battle against Persia at this location.
What is Themopylae?
500
Darius sent a large Persian army across this body of water by boat to Greece.
What is the Aegean Sea?
500
The Persian Wars lasted approximately this number of years.