The Persian Empire
This Persian king founded the Persian Empire.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
The Greek term for "foot soldier" or "infantryman".
What is hoplite?
The battle at which the Greeks first defeated the Persians.
What was the Battle of Marathon?
The statesman who led Athens during this period.
Who was Pericles?
This Athenian stateman and general switched sides multiple times in the war.
Who was Alcibiades?
This Persian king ordered the First Greco-Persian War.
Who was Darius the Great?
The most common military formation of the Classical Era.
What was the phalanx?
The sacrificial defeat where King Leonidas and 300 Spartans died.
What was the Battle of Thermopylae?
The hill in Athens where all the greatest temples were built.
What is the Acropolis?
This stateman led Sparta to win the war and defeat Athens.
Who was Lysander?
This Persian king crossed the Hellespont on a pontoon bridge.
Who was Xerxes?
The Greek term for a hoplite's primary weapon.
What was the dory?
The conflict that sparked the Greco-Persian Wars.
What was the Ionian Revolt?
The central marketplace of the polis.
What was the agora?
This disastrous expedition West crippled the Athenian army and navy.
What was the Expedition/Battle of Syracuse?
The Persian satrap of Anatolia.
What was Sardis?
The Greek term for the full set of hoplite armor.
What was the panoply?
The naval battle where the Greeks crippled the Persian navy.
What was the Battle of Salamis?
The most famous temple on the Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
This group was put in charge of Athens after the war.
What was the Thirty Tyrants?
This Persian king conquered Egypt and famously went mad.
Who was Cambyses II?
The Greek term for the shoving-match stage of battle between two phalanxes.
What was the othismos?
The final land battle where the Greeks defeated the Persian army.
What was the Battle of Plataea?
The location in the polis for both athletic and intellectual growth.
What was the gymnasia?
These battles were a humiliating defeat for the Spartans.
What were the Battles of Pylos and Sphacteria?