Ancient World History Test Review: Persia and Greece

Test Date:  Monday, November 18

Format:

• 15 multiple choice questions, each worth 3 points (45 points total)
• 2 response questions, you choose 1, each worth 55 points

Textbook Material:

Chapters 1 (the section on Persia) and 4 in your textbook.

What do I need to know?

• The major aspects of the Persian Empire
• Geographic features
• Important people
• Cyrus
• Cambyses
• Darius
• Xerxes
• Chronology of the growth of the Persian Empire
• Aspects of Persian government and administration--the satrap system
• Zoroastrianism—Zarathustra; Ahura Mazda; Angra Mainyu; major beliefs and characteristics

• The major political, social, and cultural developments in Greece, including
• Geographic features
• The early Greeks (Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean)
• The Dark Age and the significance of The Iliad and The Odyessy
• The development and significance of the polis
• Greek systems of government
• Athenian democracy
• The Assembly and Council of 500
• Sparta
• The Gerousia, Appela, Ephors, Krypteia, Agoge, Helots, and Equals
• Important people
• The Alcmaeonids
• Draco
• Solon
• Peiistratus
• Hippias
• Cleisthenes
• Lycurgus
• Chronology of events

• The Persian Wars
• Greek and Persian military practices
• The phalanx
• Causes of the wars
• Chronology of events
• Major battles and their significance
• Marathon
• Thermopylae
• Salamis
• Plataea
• Important people
• Herodotus
• Miltiades
• Leonidas
• Ephialtes
• Dieneces
• Themistocles
• Sicinnus
• Artemesia
• Pausanias 
• Mardonias

• Characteristics and significance of Greek cultural achievements
• Philosophy
• Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
• Theater, architecture, and art

• The Peloponnesian War
• Causes of the war
• The Delian League
• The Long Walls
• Chronology
• Major events
• The Spartan declaration of war
• Athenian strategy
• The plague of Athens
• The Siege of Plataea
• The Sicilian Expedition
• The battle of Aegospotami
• Important people
• Thucydides
• Periclese
• Alcibiades
• Lysander

• Aftermath of the war and its significance
• The Spartan Hegemony and the Battle of Leuctra
• King Epaminondas