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ROBY. PCA. STARBURST. SKITTLES. SPREES.
EW.
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History
6th Grade
01/10/2010

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penninsela
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a land surronded by water on 3 sides
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epic
Definition
long story telling poems
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acropilis
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"high city"
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city-state
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not only just a city but also a seperate independant state
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aristocrats
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members of the rish and powerful famlies
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tyrant
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a ruler who was seized by force
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democracy
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citizens govern themselves
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tribute
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payments made to Athens by its allies added to its wealth
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immortal
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they lived forever
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oracles
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sacred sites where it is believed gods spoke
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philosipher
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beilived people coulduse the powers of the mind and reason to understand natural events
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tragedy
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a serious story that usually ends in disaster for the main charatcher
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Percles
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built the Pathronan, was apart of an aristocrat
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Homer
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wrote the Iilad and Odessy
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Socrates
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taught others to "know thyself"
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plato
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socrates student
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who wrote iilad and the odessy
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homer
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greeces geography?
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mountainous and penninsela
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minons and myceneans gaine power how?
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trade
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minons and myceneans gaine power how?
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trade
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the fact and myth of the trojan wAar?
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fact:long battle
myth:series of battles
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what happend during the greek dark ages?
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poverty, no one traded, no one wrote
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