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Humanities Test 2
Test 2
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History
Undergraduate 1
05/09/2013

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A man of mysterious status was buried here
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Lefkandi
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Greek word for "city-state"
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polis
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"Returns"
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nostoi
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Only surviving tragic tilogy from ancient Greece
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Oresteia
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He fell on his sword in remorse
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Ajax
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Age of much Mediterranean colonization
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Archaic Age
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Age during which we know little about Greek people
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Dark Age
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Warned Odysses in the Underworld
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Agamemnon
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Soliders fighting on behalf of their city-state
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hoplites
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The League of Sparta and its allies from in 546
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Peloponnesian
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Body of Spartan government able to vote by acclaimation
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Assembly
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Sailed off with the household gods to found Rome
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Aeneas
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Oversaw the education of Spartan boys
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Ephors
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Achilles fell in love with her as he killed her
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Penthesilea
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The Trojan horse scheme was his idea
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Odysseus
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Predicted the death of Agamemnon
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Cassandra
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Pottery style with very many tool-drawn shapes
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geometric
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Killed her husband after he returned from Troy
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Clytemnestra
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Spartan lawmaking body with the most power
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Gerousia
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Killed by her father before the Trojan War
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Ighigenia
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Priest who tried to warn Troy about the wooden horse
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Laocoon
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Statue of a young male found in the Archaic Age
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kouros
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The Spartan "neighbors" who lived free but without power
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perioikoi
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Company of Spartan males ages 20-30
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syssition
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A section of land given to a Spartan male at birth
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kleros
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