BISTORT
What was one of the decisive battles of the world? 1167.
What Persian king made the third expedition against Greece? 2118.
Who was one of the ten generals chosen to resist the Persian invasion
of Attica? 1228.
How many men escaped from the battle of Thermopylae? 1901. Who led the fight at the pass? 1056. How did Themistoeles win the battle of Salamis? 1664. What rival helped him to win this battle? 97. What other contest took place on the same day? 343. Why was Themistoeles banished? 1899. Where was Mardonius, the Persian, defeated? 1502. When was the most brilliant epoch of Athens? 130. What made the age of Pericles glorious? 130. What was the dying statement of Pericles? 1453. What caused the Pelopponnesian War? 1453. What people incited this war? 455. When was the Confederacy of Delos formed? 518. What is the earliest Greek literature we have? 1082. What closes classical Greek literature? 1082. What work of art illustrates a thousand years of Grecian history?
669.
What ruined the Parthenon? 1426. Who built the Propylaea? 1465. Where and when was Herodotus born? 868. How did Socrates teach? 1777.
Why did he marry Xantippe the famous scold? 1777. Why did Plato abandon poetry? 1502. What are the important works of Aristotle? 97. How did the drama arise in Greece? 550. What are the teven tragedies of JEschylus? 21. Who won the prize long held by ^Eschylus? 1781. What happened in Athens when Euripides died? 632. What heroic resistance did Platsea make to Sparta? 1501. Who was the first king of Macedon? 1135. Who was the father of Alexander the Great? 1135. At what age did Alexander take charge of his father's government? 44. What did Demosthenes do to stop the Macedonian conquest? 1899. How did Alexander avenge himself upon the citizens of Thebes? 1899. In what great battle did he defeat the Persians? 44. What were the conditions of surrender made by Alexander to Darius?
44.
What disaster to Persia followed the battle of Arbela? 44. Who did Alexander say should inherit his throne? 44. When did the magnificent city of Persepolis disappear from history?
1455.
In what year did Greece become a Roman province? 1135. What horde of barbarians ravaged Greece in 395 A.D.? 801. Who defeated the Bulgarians? 801.
When did Greece pass into the hands of the Turks? 801. When did the war of independence break out in Greece? 801. What famous English poet fought with the Greeks in this war? 298. Who was elected king of the Hellenes in 1863? 801. Are the modern inhabitants of Greece descended from the ancient
Greeks? 801.
ROME.
Wht is the legendary history of Romulus? 1631. What peoples were mingled to form the ancient Romans? 1626. What is the most rational view regarding the founding of Rome? 1626. What crime led to the founding of the republic? 1872. How have we learned the history of the Etruscans? 630. Who made Rome the acknowledged head of Latium? 1872.
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