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Biology
9th Grade
12/11/2009

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"Land between the river'
Definition
Mesopatamia
Term
Myth
Definition
traditional stories passed down
Term
Symposium
Definition
the party
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Patricians
Definition
upper class in Rome
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Dionysus
Definition
Greek God of wine and fertility
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Aristotle
Definition
taught Alexander the Great
Term
Dynasty
Definition
kingship from father to son
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Olympic Games
Definition
held every 4 years in honor of Zeus
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Delphi
Definition
the place where the oracle lived
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Monsoon
Definition
seasonal wind that blew over India
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Polis
Definition
a city-state in Greece
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Homer
Definition
wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. Also was a blind poet
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Socrates
Definition
taught Plato. Also dies from hemlock poison
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Radio carbon dating
Definition
how to tell how old something is by using carbon
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Bureaucacy
Definition
alot of people working for the government
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Mt. Olympus
Definition
the place where the Gods lives
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Herodotus
Definition
the father of history
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Eye for an Eye
Definition
law code of Hammurabi
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Philip II
Definition
father of Alexander the Great. Also was the king of Macedonia
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Romulus and Remus
Definition
the 2 founders of Rome. They were brothers
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Babylon
Definition
the place where Alexander the Great set up his capital
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Illiad and the Odyssey
Definition
Homer wrote this
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Peloponnesian Wars
Definition
the war between Athens and its allies and Sparta and its allies
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Mesopatamia
Definition
the land between the Tigris and Euphrates river
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Yahweh
Definition
I am who I am
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