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DAILY QUADRUPLE! 400 POINTS
WHO was Cyrus the Great's grandson?
Darius
What does NIKE mean?
Victory
Darius of Persia sent messengers to the Greek city-states, ordering them to send him WHAT two things?
Earth and water
WHat does the word "razed" mean?
Razed means to burn something to the ground
Who was the Parthenon built to honor?
Athena
Which Athenian leader interpreted an oracle to mean that it was important to build up the Athenian Navy?
Themistocles
200 points each answer!
Darius allowed the ______ to return to their own land to rebuild the ________.
200 points each answer!
Darius allowed the JEWS to return to their own land to rebuild the TEMPLE.
In the Battle of Marathon, what is the name of the brilliant general who led the Athenians to defeat the much larger Persian army?
Militiades
The famous Athenian who ran 26 miles to tell the Athenians that they won the Battle of Marathon, shouted "NIKE!" and then dropped dead.
Phidippides
In WHICH BUILDING was the famous 40-foot statue of Athena located in Ancient Greece?
The Parthenon
Which Spartan military leader, along with his 300 Spartans and a coalition of 10,000 Greeks from other poleis, fought tot he death at Thermopylae?
Leonidas
Who pretended to be a traitor to the Athenians in order to trick Xerxes to attack right away in the Bay of Salamis?
Themistocles
Which Persian king marched his army through Persia across the Hellespont by fastening together triremes to make a bridge?
Xerxes
Which city-state threw the Persian messenger into a well?
What is a trireme?
an ancient galley having three banks of oars
(A galley refers to two distinct maritime concepts: historically, it is a long, slender, oar-powered warship used in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the 19th century)
Who ordered that the water be whipped and why?
Xerxes because a storm ruined his bridge of joined triremes.
400 points: Who was the statesmen and general who ruled over Athens during its Golden Age?
400 more points: What speech was he most famous for and who was the speech about?
Pericles
Famous for the Funeral Oration that was about those who died in the Pelopennesian War
List the three types of famous columns in Greece
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
DAILY DOUBLE!
Put the following battles in order from earliest to most recent:
Thermopylae
Platea
Marathon
Bay of Salamis
Thermopylae
Bay of Salamis
Platea
What does "laconic" mean?
Using very few words
Phidias was accused of two crimes. What were they?
Pilfering gold from the Statue of Athena.
Insulting Athena by carving an image of himself and Pericles on her shield
In what year did Darius make his second attempt to conquer the Greeks?
490 BC
How many soldiers did Xerxes march through Persia and across the Hellespont? How many days did it take Xerxes to get his men across?
1 million soldiers
It took 7 days
What did the Delphic oracle say that was interpreted to build up the Athenian navy? And WHO interpreted them?
"Wooden walls will save Athens"
Themistocles
List the three Persian kings (in correct order) from this unit.
Cyrus the Great
Darius
Xerxes