Lesson 28 test review

Which city-state had a powerful navy and defeated the Persian navy at the Battle of Salamis?

• Athens
• Ionia
• Sparta

He was the founder of the Persian Empire.

• Xerxes
• Cyrus II (the Great)
• Darius I

A unit of soldiers who rode horses as they attacked.

• satraps
• cavalry
• Immortals

This city-state had the strongest army in Greece.

• Athens
• Ionia
• Sparta

Which of the following statements is true concerning the Greco-Persian Wars?

• The Persians defeated the Greek city-states

• Athens started its decline after the end of the war

• Sparta and Athens were united against the Persians

• Persian ideas were adopted by the Athenians

The winner of the Greco-Persian Wars was ______________________.

• Persia
• Greece

This battle ended the Greco-Persian Wars and caused Persia to leave Greece.

• The Battle of Marathon

• Persian Wars

• The Battle of Plataea

• The Battle of Thermopylae

The Persian leader who fought against Sparta AND Athens in the Battle of Thermopylae

• Xerxes I
• Cyrus II (the Great)
• Darius I

The Persian king Xerxes demanded what two items from the Greeks to show they would accept him as their king

•  Money & Slaves  
  
•  Ships & Olives
• Earth & Water
• Olives & Money

Sparta’s most glorious defeat took place at the battle of

• Marathon
• Thermopylae
• Salamis
• Plataea