Persian Wars Quiz

How did Sparta differ from other city-states?

• It was a military society

• It excluded women from civic life

• It rejected religious practice

• It banned slavery

Answer explanation

They didn't exclude women, unlike other city-states women had rights and responsabilities as Spartans, they owned slaves and the favorite gods of the Spartans were Athena and Ares. Athena: goddess of wisdom and war, directed especially to combat strategy, cult of the feminine.

How did Spartan government work?

• It centered on a tribunal of warriors elected from their regiments

• It relied on a merchant oligarchy to make and admister laws

• It shared power among a king, an elite council and elected warriors

• It was ruled by tyrants who derived their power from war-making

How did Athenian society differ from Spartan society?

• Athenians valued education

• Athenians granted women more freedom

• Athenians depended on enslaved workers for food

• Athenians avoided violence and warface

Answer explanation

The painting you see is called "The School of Athens" by Raphael, truly a renaissance masterpiece.

Raphael used colleagues as models because there was no visual available to paint a lot of these ancient figures, Raphael needed to be creative. It’s believed these are:

Leonardo da Vinci as Plato, Giuliano da Sangallo as Aristotle, Michelangelo as Epicurus or Heraclitus and Bramante as Euclid or Archimedes

What prompted Darius I of the Persian Empire to attack Greece?

• Athens and Sparta forged an alliance

• Athens disrupted Persian trade routes

• Athens supported the Ionian revolt

• Athens took control of Persian colonies

What event brought Athens and Sparta together?

• Conflict with neighboring city-states

• Conquest of the Ionians

• Trade with the Sea Peoples

• War with the Persian Empire

Answer explanation

Remember! The cities-states that supported the Ionian revolt first were Athens and Eretria.

The Athenian politician and general Themistocles led the Greek naval opposition, blocking the Persian fleet at the strait of Artemisium. Leonidas, king of Sparta, commanded the ground forces at Thermopylae: 300 members of his royal Spartan bodyguard, called the hippeis along with a lesser-celebrated contingent of 7,000 soldiers in all.

What was significant about the Battle of Thermopylae?

• King Leonidas joined a small number of Spartans to held off a large number of Persians

• Athenians and Spartans joined forces to defeat the Persians

• The Ionians staged a revolt against the Persian Empire

• The Persians overwhealmed the combined Greek armies

Answer explanation

At Thermopylae, King Leonidas authorised two Spartan soldiers to withdraw from combat because of illness. Eurytus, decided to stay, and was killed in battle. The other, Aristodemus, went home, but when he reached Sparta, he was shunned, marginalised, and deprived of his civic rights. According to Herodotus, “no Spartan would give him fire, nor speak with him; and they called him for disgrace, Aristodemus the coward.”

How did childhood in Sparta differ from childhood in Athens?

How did Spartan government differ from Athenian government?

What is a trireme?

• a Greek warship

• an epic poem

• a form of government

• a Spartan soldier

Answer explanation

Light, fast, and maneuverable, it was the principal naval vessel with which Persia, Phoenicia, and the Greek city-states vied for mastery of the seas from the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE through the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404.

Match the following

• Ruled by a king, then an aristocracy, then a democratic assembly

• Athens' Type of Government

• Little interest in the arts and other activities outside battle training and military strenght

• Sparta's Religion

• Ares was worshiped for his violent ways being the god of war.

• Sparta's Economy

• Depended on farming and conquest; little to no trade

• Athen's Religion

• Athena was worshiped for her reason, intelligence, arts and literature

• Sparta's Culture