Chapter 13 Quiz

. Athens' need to secure its critical _______ became the strategic issue in fifth-century BC Greece.

. Who performed the liturgies, or "public services," at Athens?

. What is the definition of the word demagogues?

. In 461 BC, Ephialtes convinced the Athenians to transfer crucial powers from the Council of the Areopagus to the _______.

. What, according to Thucydides, was the first city to be enslaved by the Athenians, in contravention of the terms of its alliance?

. The battles at _______ made many Greeks wonder whether they any longer needed the naval alliance with Athens.

. On the map, the sites in Aegean Greece are Sparta, Argos, Corinth, Megara, Athens, Piraeus, Aegina, Delos, Naxos, Corcyra, Potdaea, Epidamnus, and Byzantium.

Which two locations on this map were at the heart of the complicated dispute in 435 BC that eventually resulted in Athens taking a risk and breaking Pericles' rule of avoiding new foreign entanglements?

. When the Spartans asked Athens for help in 464 BC, Cimon helped Sparta push rebellious helots back to _______, where the Spartans then besieged them.

. Which Spartan leader was removed from his command by the Ephors?

. Athens' hope against Sparta lay not in hoplite battles, but in attempting to encircle and split off _______, Sparta's most important ally, from the Peloponnesian League.

. When Theron died in 472 BC, his son Thrasydaeus attacked Syracuse, only to be crushed so thoroughly by _______ that the citizens of Akragas expelled him and set up a democracy.

. What treaty, which may have been made up a century after the fact by fourth-century BC historians, formally ended the 50war between Athens and Persia?

. In 439 BC, _______ expanded its army and navy and bullied or persuaded most Dorian-speaking Greeks in eastern Sicily to support it.

. How did Athens become something of a capital city, reducing its formerly independent allies to provincial centers?

. According to the Old Oligarch, the Athenians are lacking in one thing; what is it?

. Late in 446 BC, Pericles negotiated what treaty with Sparta in which Athens renounced all claims in mainland Greece, apparently turning back the clock to the days when Sparta was the greatest Greek power?

. FIGURE 13.4 Black-figured plaque from Corinth showing slaves in a mine, c. sixth century BC. Naked workers hack at the earth and fill baskets with the ore or clay. A lamp hangs down, giving them illumination.Four people work in a dug mine. On the right, one of them stands and uses a hammer to cut the earth in the mine. One of them sits in the center and collects the necessary items into a basket. On the left, one man passes a basket up to a woman who leans into the mine. A lamp hangs above them.

Who are depicted on this black-figured plaque from the sixth century BC?

. Sparta proposed that the _______ should relocate to mainland Greece in order to protect them from the Persians.

. Athens' treatment of _______ was the final straw for the Spartans after the showdown with Athens at Potidaea.

. The steady growth of _______ was the most important development in Classical Greek history.

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