OCR GCSE Ancient History Athens in the Age of Pericles 462 to 429 BC overview quiz quiz

Stripped it of nearly all its political powers, leaving it as a homicide court

Abolished the council entirely and at once replaced it with the popular Assembly

Made it the supreme ruling body in charge of all Athenian policy

Reformed it so that its members were chosen by lot each year

Free grants of farmland to poorer citizens

State pay for jurors and office-holders

Abolishing the Assembly and the popular vote

Making full citizenship hereditary by birth

The Council of 500 (the boule)

The aristocratic Areopagus court

The Assembly (ekklesia)

The board of ten generals (strategoi)

By a popular election

By family inheritance

By the Areopagus

By lot (sortition)

Women, slaves and metics (resident foreigners)

Only convicted criminals and exiles were barred

Only the poorest labourers without property

Nobody at all, since every resident could vote

A special wealth tax imposed on the richest aristocratic families

A vote to exile a citizen for ten years if he seemed too powerful

A religious festival held each year in honour of the goddess Athena

A formal procedure used to elect the ten generals for the coming year

As an empire founded to rule all of mainland Greece from the start

As a trading league set up to control commerce in the Aegean Sea

As a voluntary alliance of Greek states against Persia

As a defensive alliance formed mainly to wage war against Sparta

The decisive Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon over Persia

The death of Pericles and the end of the golden age of Athens

The founding of the democratic Council of 500 by the reformer Cleisthenes

The move of the common treasury from Delos to Athens

General (strategos), one of ten elected each year

Hereditary king of Athens with sole supreme power

Chief priest in charge of all the city's religious rites

Permanent head of the aristocratic council of the Areopagus

To meet and defeat Sparta's superior hoplite army in open battle on land

To bring the rural population inside the walls and rely on the navy

To make peace with Sparta immediately before any real fighting began

To launch a fresh invasion of the Persian Empire in the east instead

In a great naval battle fought against the Persians at Salamis

He was sent into exile for ten years by a vote of ostracism

In the plague that struck the crowded city in 429 BC

He was put on trial and executed on the orders of the Assembly

Plutarch's Life of Pericles, written centuries afterwards

Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia, composed a century later

Herodotus' Histories, dealing with the earlier Persian Wars

Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War