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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece
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History
6th Grade
01/29/2008
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Epic
 Definition
Long story poem
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Myth
 Definition
Stories that explain things in nature
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Parthenon
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A temple for the goddess Athena
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Ampitheater
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Outdoor theater
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Philosophy
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Love of wisdom- (questions beliefs)
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Fable
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Animal stories that teach a lesson
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Democracy
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Rule by the people
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Hippocrates
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Father of medicine
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Democritus
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Discovered everything was made of atoms
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Socrates, Aristotle, Plato
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Great Greek philosophers
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Euclid
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Wrote a geometry text called “Elements”
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Aesop
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Wrote Fables
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Homer
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Blind poet wrote Iliad and Odyssey
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Herodotus
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Father of history (Persian wars)
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Pericles
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Ruled Athens during Golden Age
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Alexander the Great
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Conquered many lands, prince of Macedon, Spread Greek culture
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Zeus

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King of the Gods
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Agora
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Open marketplace
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Acropolis
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High rocky hill overlooking Athens
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Mt. Olympus
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Highest Mt. , home of the gods
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Peloponnesus
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Southern half of Greece
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Athens
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Center of democracy, culture, and trade
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Sparta
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Military state-Oligarchy
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Troy
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Trojan war, Asia Minor (Turkey)
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