European History Quiz (I)

____________: Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave.

________ civilization on Crete with King _______, the founder of the Minoan empire. (2500-1450 BC) Probably the eruption of the island of _______ in around 1630 BC ended Crete.

The _____________ of Greece (1450-1100 BC), in conflict with the ___________ who brought iron technology and ________ (civilization) (probably in 1180s) recorded in Iliad by _______ later.

A ‘dark age’ between 1200 and 1150 BC as attacked by ___________ in mainland Greece and ___________ from _________.

By 800 BC the city states of Greece began to grow in the ____________ and the Mediterranean. Greece was in contact with the __________, who built the city of Carthage in _________; the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet.

Athens: (in 620) __________ codified harsh laws; ________ promoted civil rights; in 508 ___________ led a revolt against aristocracy and established democracy.

King Cyrus of Persia (559-530) occupied all of Asia Minor. Afterwards, King Darius (520-486) was defeated at the Battle of Marathon in 490 and driven off in the sea battle at Salamis in 480 and a land battle at _______. The ____________ (478-404), the peak of Athens. _______ presided over Athens in 461 and sought peace with Persia in 449.

Playwrights: _________ (Oedipus Rex), _______ (Hippolytus) and __________ (The Persians). The historian: Thucydides. Physician: _____________. Philosophers: ___________-> _________-> __________.

Alexander (son of Philip of ________) defeated the Persians and expanded Hellenistic civilization. The ____________ Dynasty was founded by _________ with a great library at ____________.

Rome founded by Romulus in the 5^th century BC. The Romans, inhabitants of _______ (western Italy), exiled ___________ in favor of a republic.