5 Written Questions

1. 202 B.C. end of 2nd punic war; Roman army defeated Carthage (led by Hannibal) and left carthage in peace
2. final confrontation of the Roman Republic; Sept.2, 31 B.C.; Mark Antony vs Cleopatra
3. greatest victory of King Phillip II; defeated Athens and Thebes
4. 479 B.C. final land battle fought during the 2nd Persian invasion of Greece
5. father of Greek tragedy; wrote the Oresteia trilogy

4 Multiple Choice Questions

1. blind poet that wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
   1. Issus
   2. Chaeronea
   3. Zama
   4. Homer
2. 334 B.C. when Alexander the Great met the Persians on their soil and defeated them
   1. Gaudamela
   2. Granicus River
   3. Chaeronea
   4. Actium
3. 480 B.C. battle fought between Greece and Persia; while the Athenians waited for Persians to invade, the Spartans held off the mass of the army at thermopolae along with a few other stray warriors [300]
   1. Homer
   2. Marathon
   3. Thermopolae
   4. Chaeronea
4. 480 B.C. naval battle between Greece and Persia on the straight of Salamis
   1. Zama
   2. Issus
   3. Salamis
   4. Plataea

4 True/False Questions

1. sophocles → most popular writer of greek tragedy; wrote the Oedipus trilogy

   True        False

2. Issus → 333 B.C. Greece defended Babylon by using their new and improved Navy

   True        False

3. Marathon → took place during the first persian invasion; first attempt from persia, under the rule of Darius I to undertake Greece; Greece won; the name of the battle inspired by the messanger who dropped dead after running to athens to deliver the news of victory

   True        False

4. Gaudamela → 202 B.C. end of 2nd punic war; Roman army defeated Carthage (led by Hannibal) and left carthage in peace

   True        False