World Scholar's Cup Ancient History — practice questions
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Practice World Scholar's Cup Ancient History in the app →Raiders appear on the horizon and the townspeople run uphill to the fortified height. That refuge is the:Sparta seized Messenian farmland and enslaved the people living on it. Those enslaved people were the:After the Persian threat, Greek city-states banded together in 477 BCE with a treasury on Delos. That allianceA Persian force lands on the west coast of Attica and a battle follows there. The place is:A small band, mostly Spartans, chose to stand in a narrow pass between the mountains and the sea. That pass waAthenians left their own city empty and put their faith in the fleet from an island close by. That island was:Around 509 BCE an Athenian aristocrat talked Sparta into helping throw the tyrants out of Athens. He was:With its middle class sliding into debt and slavery, Athens appointed one man in 594 BCE to restore order. He Every four years from 776 BCE, Greeks travelled to one site to compete in contests honouring Zeus. That site wA temple dedicated to Athena Parthenos crowned the Athenian heights and became a symbol of the city. It is thePhilip II died and his twenty-year-old son inherited a rebellion along with the throne. That son is known as:A student dates a coin to the stretch from 323 to 31 BCE, after Alexander's death. That stretch is the:Roman society split into two orders. One was the patricians, and the other was the:Rome's laws were written down and posted in the Forum so any citizen could read them. That code is the:After 367 BCE one of the two highest officials of the republic had to be a plebeian. Those officials were the:After 450 BCE the plebeians met in their own assembly and elected ten officers every year. Those officers wereRome and Carthage fought a long series of wars for control of the western Mediterranean. Those wars are the:A Carthaginian general marched an army with war elephants over the Alps into Italy. That general was:In 31 BCE Octavian beat the fleet of Antony and Cleopatra off the coast of northern Greece. That battle was:The Senate honoured Octavian with a title meaning revered one, used for gods and old heroes. That title was:The early republic had no king. It was run by elected magistrates and a Council of Elders called the:Back in Rome, Caesar pressed the Senate into naming him to an office of sole command. That office was: