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Ancient Greece
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8th Grade
05/11/2011

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The Minoans
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they where one of the first Greek cultures. Master ship builders and they spent most of their time on sea. they built an advanced society on the island of Crete and they may have been ended by a volcanic eruption.
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The Mycenaeans
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first people to speak greek and they were famous for their fortresses along the mainland. they may have started the Trojan war. Became big traders but didn't trade fairly. They were destroyed by invaders and earthquakes
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Polis
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a group of people from the old Mycenaean created a city state called polis.
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Polis
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a group of people from the old Mycenaean created a city state called polis.
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City states
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like civilizations with big walls and protect its own people.
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Agora
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marketplace of a city where everyone traded.
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Acropolics
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a high hill where city states where usually built.
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charon
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gate keeper of the underworld and you had to give him a coin to get by.
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hades
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the king of the underworld
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persephone
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the queen of the underworld and the god of seasons.
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Sysyphus
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a guy who tried cheat death and faild and was punished to push a rock up a hill everyday forever.
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Chronus
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the father of hates, zues and poseiden and he ate his children.
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