Questions in this quiz: Ancient Greece

Classical Greece from Athens and Sparta through Alexander the Great. City-states, the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, philosophy, drama, the Olympics, and Hellenistic legacy.

1. At which battle in 371 BC did Theban general Epaminondas shatter Spartan military supremacy using an oblique phalanx formation? — Options: Mantinea, Leuctra, Chaeronea, Coronea
2. Who reorganized the Athenian citizen body into ten tribes based on demes in 508 BC, a reform regarded as the foundation of Athenian democracy? — Options: Solon, Cleisthenes, Pericles, Peisistratus
3. Which of the three great Athenian tragedians is traditionally said to have led the chorus celebrating the Greek naval victory at Salamis in 480 BC? — Options: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Agathon
4. The Hellenistic kingdom of the Seleucids was eventually reduced to a rump state in Syria largely due to losses to which rising power in the east? — Options: The Kushan Empire, The Parthians, The Mauryans, The Bactrian Greeks
5. Place these events in correct chronological order: (1) Battle of Plataea, (2) Ionian Revolt begins, (3) Battle of Marathon, (4) Xerxes' invasion launched. — Options: 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 3, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1
6. In the Spartan system, what term described the free non-citizen inhabitants of surrounding towns who served in the army but had no political rights in Sparta? — Options: Helots, Mothakes, Perioikoi, Neodamodeis
7. At which 480 BC naval battle did the Greek fleet, led by Themistocles, decisively defeat the Persians in the straits near Athens?