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Persian Wars

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Decisive naval battle of 480 starring Themistocles

a)

Thermopylae

b)

Salamis

c)

Mycale

d)

Artemesium

2.

When was the Battle of Marathon?

a)

480

b)

479

c)

490

d)

499

3.

What other city state aided the Athenians at Marathon?

a)

Thebes

b)

Sparta

c)

Aegina

d)

Platea

4.

What city was destroyed in the Ionian Revolt?

a)

Byzantium

b)

Sardis

c)

Miletus

d)

Pergamum

5.

What strategos destroyed Cyrus' rearguard?

a)

Kimon

b)

Militiades

c)

Themistocles

d)

Alcabiades

6.

Where did Xerxes build a pontoon bridge to Europe?

a)

Hellespont

b)

Galipoloi

c)

Bosphorus

d)

Golden Horn

7.

Who was the Persian king at Marathon?

a)

Xerxes

b)

Cambyses

c)

Cyrus

d)

Darius

8.

According to legend, who was the first Marathon runner?

a)

Pheidippides

b)

Youfixades

c)

Youbreakades

d)

Socrates

9.

Athenian tyrant who urged the Persians to attack Athens

a)

Hipparchus

b)

Hippias

c)

Peisistratus

d)

Cleisthenes

10.

Final battle of the Persian Wars

a)

Thermopylae

b)

Chaeronia

c)

Hydaspes

d)

Platea

11.

Lesser Spartan king at Thermopylae

a)

Pausanius

b)

Lysander

c)

Leonidas

d)

Cleombrotus

12.

Tyrant of Miletus who started the Ionian Revolt

a)

Aristagoras

b)

Aristides

c)

Achilles

d)

Agamemnon

13.

Site of the Congress of 482

a)

Sparta

b)

Corinth

c)

Athens

d)

Thebes

14.

Polis that sent the largest contingent to Thermopylae

a)

Sparta

b)

Phocis

c)

Thespis

d)

Thebes

15.

Carian dynast who fought against the Greeks at Salamis

a)

Artemesia

b)

Ataxerxes

c)

Archamedes

d)

Alyssa