I. Write a factual paragraph about five (5) of the following. The important questions to answer are: who or what? when? (don't forget the date) where? why? how? and so what? (i.e., describe important action(s), principle(s) or result(s) for each answer). SOME GOOD ADVICE: Please be very careful choosing items to answer; you will receive ZERO CREDIT even if you write an answer, correct in itself, about a person or thing not on this list. A minimal identification without discussion will not receive full credit. 40 points
II. Cross out any five of the following events. Arrange the remaining 10 in chronological order, earliest to latest, writing the number in the space provided. "Peloponnesian war" not qualified as first or second means the second, the subject of Thucydides' history. 20 points
Here is an example from the period covered by the last test:
Ionian Revolt
Darius invades Scythia
Death of Leonidas
Battle of Marathon
The easiest thing, if you remember exact dates, is to write the dates and then put the events in order. If you don't, remember what has to come first. Leonidas died at the battle of Thermopylae (480), which occurred during Xerxes' invasion of Greece. By the time Xerxes was king, Darius had died, so this has to be the last event in the list because Darius is involved with the other three. If faced with something that lasted for a long time, such as the Ionian Revolt, go with the first year (499). The Battle of Marathon occurred because Darius sent an invasion of Greece to punish the Athenians for helping in the Ionian Revolt, thus that battle must come after the revolt. The only problematical event is the date of Darius' activities in Scythia; if you remember, this was before the Ionian revolt, around 516. If you don't remember, you might consider that Darius died not long after the battle of Marathon and was busy planning another invasion of Greece and probably did not have time to invade Scythia; thus it is a good guess that this happened much earlier than the Ionian Revolt. So the proper numbers to write for the above list are: 2, 1, 4, 3
A machine does not correct your test, I do; if you get one of the events in the wrong position this does not make all subsequent answers wrong.
III. Gobbets. Choose eight passages and place them in their historical context: give appropriate factual detail (a list is acceptable) about the date, specific circumstance(s) and/or person(s) referred to, and what is especially important or interesting therein. 40 points