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| The earliest center of civilization |
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| A center of Aegean culture at Mycenae, established by northern invaders |
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| Northern invaders that conquered the main Mycenaean fortresses |
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| Epic poems that most of our knowledge of the Greek Dark Ages rests upon |
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| Greek poet, writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
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| The Greek god that was "king of gods and men" and ruler of Mount Olympus |
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| Patron of the city of Athens, Greek goddess of wisdom |
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| A league of city-states led by Sparta, created to thwart the advance of the democratic principles fostered by the Athenians |
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| A statesman that led Athens towards democracy |
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| The Persian king under whom the Persians crushed a Greek revolt supported by Athens |
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| The year of the battle at the Bay of Marathon between Persians and Athenians |
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| Son of Darius I, attempted to avenge the lost battle of his father against the Athenians |
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| The year the Persians fought the Greeks in the Battle of Thermopylae |
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| The influential leader of Athens during her Golden Age |
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| A defensive alliance among Greek city-states against any further Persian attacks, led by Athens |
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| A civil war between Sparta and her allies and Athens and her allies |
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| The king that united Macedonia under his rule and extended his kingdom into Greece |
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| Son of Philip II, avenged the Persian invasion of Greece, and became the king of all of Asia |
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| Led the Persian army when they were conquered by Alexander the Great, he fled leaving his family to be captured |
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| Father of Philosophy, one of the first to seek to explain the origin of the universe in natural terms |
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| A Greek philosopher devoted to seeking truth and teaching men how to conduct their lives |
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| The most famous pupil of Socrates, a Greek philosopher who established a school of philosophy and science in Athens (the Academy) |
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| A Greek philosopher, the most famous student at Plato's Academy, developed the syllogism |
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| He founded the Epicurean philosophy(great happiness and pleasure could be achieved through the avoidance of pain and fear) |
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| Founded the Stoic philosophy (the affairs of men and the universe are ordered by fixed laws) |
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| A philosopher and mathematician who concluded that universe could be explained in mathematical terms, invented the Pythagorean Theorem |
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| A famed physician, the Father of Medicine he taught that every illness has a natural cause |
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| The Father of Geometry who founded a school of mathematics in Alexandria, Egypt |
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| An astronomer and geographer who determined the circumference of the globe using Euclid's geometry |
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| The Father of History who wrote his history of the Persian War, his writings are often inaccurate due to exaggeration |
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| A historian who wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War, he was more accurate and objective than Herodotus |
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| Among the most famous of Greek dramatists, a writer of tragedy |
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| Among the most famous of Greek dramatists, a writer of comedy |
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| The most spectacular of the temples to the Greek gods on the Athenian Acropolis |
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