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a long story-poem
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| a story that explains something in nature |
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an animal story that teaches a lesson
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"rule by the people"
the type of government in Athens |
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"rule by a few"
the type of government in Sparta |
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the Father of Medicine
(discovered diseases were cause by natural causes) |
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| discovered everything was made up of atoms |
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famous Greek philosopher
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famous Greek philosopher
(taught Plato) |
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famous Greek philosopher
(taught Aristotle; student of Socrates) |
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Prince of Troy that kidnapped Helen
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| a mathematician that wrote the Geometry text called "Elements" |
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| a blind Greek poet that wrote the epics (The Iliad & The Odyssey) |
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the Father of History
(wrote about the Persian War) |
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| ruler of Athens during the Golden Age |
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| conquered the known world and spread Greek ideas |
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| outdoor theater where Greeks watched plays |
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| outdoor marketplace in Athens |
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rocky hill that overlooks Athens
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highest mountain peak in Greece;
home of the Greek gods |
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| city-state that was a center of democracy, culture, and trade |
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| peninsula where Greece is located |
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| sea located south of Greece |
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| city-state in Turkey that fought Greece in the Trojan War |
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temple to the goddess Athena;
located on the acropolis overlooking Athens |
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| a Greek city-state consisting of the walled city, the farmland, and the people |
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sea traders in the Mediterranean region;
gave their alphabet to the Greeks |
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| Persian king during the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Salamis |
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| location of a Greek battle in the Persian War; Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to notify Athens of the victory over the Persians |
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| location of a Greek battle in the Persian War; 300 Spartan soldiers held off the Persians in the mountain pass so Athens could be warned that Persia was going to invade |
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| location of a Greek sea battle where the Greeks used home sea advantage to defeat the Persians |
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| King of Sparta who was married to Helen and fought Troy to get her back |
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| Greek war hero that was invincible except for his heel |
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| Greek war hero that devised the wooden horse strategy to win the Trojan War |
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