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Greece Chapter 8 Section 1
Horrell Stroup Lamb
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History
6th Grade
02/03/2012

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Term
polis
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the Greek word for a city-state (p.232)
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classical
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an age marked by great achievements (p.232)
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acropolis
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a fortress was usually built upon this central high hill in a Greek polis (p.232)
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peninsula
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an area of land surrounded on three sides by water; the main landform in Greece (p. 229)
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seas
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Greece is surrounded by these very important trade routes (p. 229-230)
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Minoans and Myceneans
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the two earliest cultural groups to develop in Greece (230-231)
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colonies
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the Greeks established these for many reasons, most importantly to become rich from trade (p.232-233)
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