Chapter 5 Quizzes

The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars
. Solon's laws that outlawed debt slavery and canceled the obligations of the hektemoroi came to be known as ______.

. Which of the following was not one of the larger social associations into which eight-century BC Athens was organized?

. Who was the tyrant of Syracuse whose offer of help against the Persians (assuming he had a share of command) was rejected by Athens, Sparta, and their allies?

. The ten new tribes created by the reforms of Cleisthenes formed the basis for the ______.

. What were the names given to the two top property classes in Solon's reorganization of the Athenian economy?

. Under which leader were two new festivals of the god Dionysus, which featured competitions in tragic drama, inaugurated in Athens?

. Herodotus credits the general ______ for persuading the Athenians not to delay, but instead to attack the Persian forces at Marathon.

. What is the name of the hill on which, around 500 BC, a meeting place for the Athenian ekklesia was carved out?

. Which of the following was not one of the major Athenian exports in the sixth century BC?

. Which two city-states on the Greek mainland sent help to the Ionian Greek city-states that revolted against the Persian Empire?

. The Battle of ______ by sea in 480 BC and the Battle of ______ in 479 BC were the decisive victories for the Greeks against the Persians.

. Which battle ended the campaign of Darius' Persian forces in Greece in 490 BC?

. According to Herodotus, Pisistratus regained power in Athens in part through a stunt in which he ______.

. Which hero did the Athenians claim as the leader of the synoecism that united the towns and villages of Attica under the leadership of Athens?

. Which of these was not one of the factions into which the Athenians were divided as Pisistratus was seeking power?

. Athens was not a major Mycenaean palace center, and it was not one of the major powers on the Attic peninsula in the Late Bronze Age.

. The only Greeks to oppose the Persian army at Thermopylae were 300 Spartans.

. The significance of Draco's laws is that they promoted the authority of the state in the place of the authority of the family, especially in homicide cases.

. The Athenian coins issued by Pisistratus (or by his sons) featured the image of Athena and an owl, and became sound currency throughout the Aegean.

. The majority of Greek city-states actively opposed Xerxes' invasion of Greece, and only a few fought on the side of the Persians.

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