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- 1. Multiple Choice
How did the Persian Wars begin?
After the Spartans conquered Ionia they decided to conquer Persia as well.
After the Persians conquered Ionia, they decided to conquer Sparta as well.
After the Persians conquered Ionia, colonies in the area rebelled with support from Athens.
After the Athenians conquered Ionia, colonies in the area rebelled with support from Persia.
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened first?
The Persians defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae.
The Greeks defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
The Persians conquer Ionia.
The Greeks win a major victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened second?
The Persians defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae.
The Greeks defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
The Persians conquer Anatolia.
The Greeks win a major victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened third?
The Persians defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae.
The Greeks defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
The Persians conquer Ionia.
The Greeks win a major victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened last?
The Persians defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae.
The Greeks defeat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
The Persians conquer Anatolia.
The Greeks win a major victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis.
- 6. Multiple Choice
How did the Persian Wars change the relationship between Athens and Sparta?
They started forming a common Greek identity and culture, but then tensions grew.
They no longer wanted to live together in Greece.
They joined together to form a single city-state to fight off common enemies.
They worked on opposite sides of the Persian Wars and kept fighting each other after Persia was gone.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened first?
Athens leads the league because it has the largest navy.
The Greek city-states wanted to form an alliance to protect them from the Persian Empire.
The Peloponnesian War started.
Pericles uses Delian League money to rebuild Athens.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened second?
Athens leads the league because it has the largest navy.
The Greek city-states wanted to form an alliance to protect them from the Persian Empire.
The Delian League is formed.
Pericles uses Delian League money to rebuild Athens.
Sparta forms the Peloponnesian League.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened third?
Athens leads the league because it has the largest navy.
The Greek city-states wanted to form an alliance to protect them from the Persian Empire.
The Peloponnesian War started.
Pericles uses Delian League money to rebuild Athens.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened fourth?
Athens leads the league because it has the largest navy.
The Greek city-states wanted to form an alliance to protect them from the Persian Empire.
The Peloponnesian War started.
Pericles uses Delian League money to rebuild Athens.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which league did Sparta form and lead?
The Peloponnesian League
The Delian League
The Spartan League
The League of Naxos
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of these events happened last?
The Peloponnesian Wars begin.
The Greek city-states wanted to form an alliance to protect them from the Persian Empire.
The Delian League is formed.
Pericles uses Delian League money to rebuild Athens.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What was one consequence of the Peloponnesian Wars?
Athens became the dominant Greek city-state since it had the largest navy.
The Greek city-states started forming a common Greek identity and culture.
The Greek city-states were vulnerable to conquest by the Macedonians.
Sparta became the dominant Greek city-state since it was strengthened by the war.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Athens
Sparta
Persia
Corinth
- 15. Multiple Choice
What was one reason the Greeks began colonizing other parts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea?
They needed better farmland
Wars in Greece pushed them out
They were looking for gold
They had a strong sense of adventure
- 16. Multiple Choice
Where were most Greek colonies located?
on the coast
on mountains
near a river
far inland
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which of the following would have been a citizen in ancient Greece?
metic
woman
aristocrat
prisoner
- 18. Multiple Choice
What is a tenant farmer?
a farmer who owns a large farm
a farmer who farms the land owned by someone else
a farmer with a small farm
a farmer who grows cash crops
- 19. Multiple Choice
Though much of Greece lacks good farmland, what two crops grow well there?
wheat and barley
olives and grapes
corn and potatoes
cotton and flax
- 20. Multiple Choice
The alphabet of which other seafaring, colonizing people influenced the Greek alphabet?
the Etruscans
the Persians
the Egyptians
the Phoenicians
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