Preview (15 questions)
1 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The Golden Age of Athens also known as the Age of ___________.


Socrates

Pericles

Athena

2 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The Golden Age of Athens began in 478 BCE when the Athenians defeated the invading ___________.


Spartans

Egyptians

Persians

3 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The golden age of Athenian culture is usually dated from _________.


449 to 431 B.C

249 to 331 B.C

350 to 381 B.C

4 Question
30 seconds
Q.

____________ was important in ancient Greece because it was believed to be the home of the gods.


Mount Rainier

Mount Olympus

Mount Everest

5 Question
30 seconds
Q.

After defeating the Persians for the second time, the Greeks decided that they needed to form a league. The league was named _________.


Peloponnesian league

Sparta league

Delian league

6 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Only men and women with Athenian parents were considered true Athenians.


True

False

7 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Sparta was one of the members of the Delian League.


True

False

8 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The Athenians valued the preservation of history. Even today, you can read the works of an Athenian historian named _________.


Thucydides

Herodotus

Aristotle

9 Question
30 seconds
Q.

What government body brought proposals before the citizen assembly?


Boule

Batard

Balle

10 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The age began with the unlikely defeat of a vast Persian army by badly outnumbered Greeks and it ended with an inglorious and lengthy war between which two powerful city-states?


Persia and Decathlon

Athens and Sparta

Athens and Persia

11 Question
30 seconds
Q.

Athens' military campaign against which League that eventually ended the Greek Golden Age?


Persian

Belle

Peloponnesian

12 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The government of Athens during the Golden Age is best described as a __________ democracy.


Ultimate

Limited

First

13 Question
30 seconds
Q.

During the Golden Age, the Parthenon was built under the general supervision of which sculptor?


Phidias

Praxiteles

Myron

14 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The Parthenon replaced an older temple to Athena, which was destroyed during the Persian invasion of 480 B.C.


True

False

15 Question
30 seconds
Q.

The so-called golden age of Athenian culture flourished under the leadership of __________.


Socrates

Pericles

Aristotle