First official battle of the Persian Wars that was fought in Northern Greece. Won by the Athenians and allowed time to build navy.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
100
The island where the treasury of the Delian League was located until Athens took the money to their own city.
What is Delos?
100
Alliance of Greek city-states that formed in response to the Delian League.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
100
Land in which Philip II lived as King and Alexander the Great was born.
What is Macedonia?
100
It has given Western Civilization its basis for government, military, and culture. Our society mirrors that of this famous land that we have been studying.
What is Greece?
200
Where the Persian Wars technically started, collection of Greek cities under Persian rule in Asia Minor.
What is Ionia?
200
Reasons that Athens experienced a Golden Age.
What are wealth, leadership, power, victory in war, and advancement in society?
200
Greek city-state that was allied with Sparta. Main instigator of much of the fighting with Athens during the war. called on Sparta to fight instead of being passive.
What is Corinth?
200
The largest piece of what was previously Alexander the Great's Empire. It consisted mainly of his Persian conquests.
What is the Seleucid Kingdom?
200
The real reason Alexander died.
What is fever?
300
Grandson of the first Persian Emperor involved in the Persian Wars and King of Kings. Amassed one of the largest armies ever assembled to crush the Greeks.
Who is Xerxes?
300
Aspects of culture that were important during the Golden Age.
What are art, music, drama, and philosophy?
300
City-state that was allied with Sparta and attacked Sicily, causing the Athenians to send their navy to Italy. Would later have a large part in defeating the Athenian Navy on the Italian Coast.
What is Syracuse?
300
Father of Alexander the Great and the conqueror of Greece.
Who is Philip II?
300
The speech given by Pericles about fallen soldiers and the Athenian Democracy.
What is the Funeral Oration?
400
Alliance formed between Greek city-states to continue fighting the Persians after defeat of the Persian invasion. At odds with the Peloponnesian League.
What is the Delian League?
400
The famous historian that wrote the Persian Wars down for us all to read and study. Called the "father of history."
Who is Herodotus?
400
The problems that Athens faced during the war.
What are rebellions, loss of money, navy, and manpower?
400
One of the three main pieces of Alexander's empire after it split. It consisted of the parts of Egypt he had conquered.
What is the Ptolemaic Kingdom?
400
Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato, taught about the Golden Mean and educated Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
500
Athenian politician and war leader who urged the building of boats after the Battle of Marathon.
Who is Themistocles?
500
Athenian leader who was strongly associated with the Golden Age. Praised the Athenian Democracy.
Who is Pericles?
500
The act of god that took the lives of two thirds of the Athenian citizens, as well as Pericles and his sons.
What is the plague?
500
The Emperor of the Persian Empire during the time of Alexander the Great. Alexander was so obsessed with killing him that he chased him across the Persian Empire.
Who is Darius III?
500
A cause for the scrutiny and care that historians take when reading sources that talk about themselves or something close to them in time and space. Hint: What is __________ ______?