Greek Wars
This city is filled with warriors
What is Sparta?
the century we are studying.
What is the 5th century?
He is the one who told this fantastic story.
Who is the Greek historian Herodotus?
He wrote about the Peloponessian War.
Who is Thucydides?
The citizens of Chalcis were forced to take one of these.
What is an oath of allegiance?
This city was the birth place of this running event at the Olympics?
What is Marathon?
The year the powerful Persian army landed on the plain of Marathon.
What is 490 BCE?
The Persian army outnumbered the Hoplites by this many soldiers.
What is 5 to 1?
Thucydides declared that even though he witnessed the events. It did not guaranteed this.
What is his objectivity?
This city state took control of Greece at the end of the Peloponnesian war.
What is Sparta?
The battle took place mostly on water.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
The year the battle of Salamis started.
What is 480 BCE?
It is the distance the marathon runner traveled to spread the news that the Persians were defeated.
What is 42 kms?
Thucydides also questioned this about witnesses of historical events.
What is their credibility?
Instead of protecting Greece, Athens used the money from the other cities to do this.
What is build Athens and build magnificient monuments?
The battle of Salamis was won because the greek navy possessed 200 of these.
What are the trireme?
The year the Peloponnesian war ended.
What is 404 BCE?
this is the city the Marathon runner ran to.
What is Athens?
Thudydides felt that his writing was lacking this.
What is romance? or the Fantastical?
The Greek military alliance that formed after the Battle of Salamis called itself this.
What is the Delian League?
this battle formation allowed the Greeks to dominate battlefields.
What is the phalanx?
The amount of years the Peloponnesian War lasted.
What is 20 years?
These are the last words the fabled Marathon runner said before dying.
What is we won?
He questioned whether the fantastic is more important than this.
What is the truth?
The Greeks painted this on the front of their ship to help them position themselves visually.
What is an eye?