Test & Review (chapters 5-9)

Who is known as the "father of history"? He wrote a history of the Persian Wars.

• Pericles

• Aeschylus

• Herodotus

• Sophocles

Around 546 BCE, most city-states were under the control of whom?

• Asian Minor

• Persians

• Sparta

• Athens

Athens and Sparta put aside their disagreements and united against the Persians. The army was led by whom?

• King Ephialtes

• King Xerxes

• Emperor Theodosius I

• King Leonidas

All three hundred Spartans died defending the what?

• Pass

• Emblem

• Salamis

• Path

Who drove the Persian army out of Greece forever?

• Pausanias

• Miletus

• Ephialtes

• Xerxes

Due to fear of the Persians attaching Greece again, many city-states formed a what?

• A true united nation

• An army

• An alliance

• A league

During what era were some of the greatest artistic and cultural achievements produced?

• The Golden Age

• The Golden Era

• The Persian War

• The Ancient

A key to Pericles's success as a general was his skill as a _________.

• An orator

• A citizen

• A rhetoric

• A warrior

In 449 BCE, Pericles suggested Athens rebuild the temples and public buildings of which popular landmark?

• Olympian Zeus

• Acropolis

• Parthenon

• Ancient Agora of Athens

Considered to be the greatest of all Greek buildings and a temple to Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, what is the name of this landmark?

• Agora

• Acropolis

• Ancient Agora of Athens

• Parthenon