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The Golden Age
Chapter 9
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History
6th Grade
03/07/2012

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Darius I

 

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The leader of the Persian Empire. He wanted to conquer Greek city-states
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Xerxes
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Darius's son. 

 Came close to conquering the Greeks

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Cleisthenes
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Leader of Athens.  He made reforms that helped Athens from an early democracy (people govern)
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Pericles
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Made dramatic reforms.  Believed that all citizens rich and poor should be able to serve equally in government.
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Socrates
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Greek philosopher who taught by asking questions.
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Hesiod
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Earliest Greek epic poet.  Wrote down myths and legends.
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Homer
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Poet and wrote Iliad and Odyssey
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Sophocles
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famous playwright.  His plays were about tradedies.
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Ariststophanes
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Was the master of Greek comedies
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Pythagoras
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A mathematician.  He thought that everything in the universe could be understood by numbers.
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Hippocrates
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He was a doctor.  He found out that an illness was not a punishment.
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Democritus

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A Greek scientist.  He explained that all matters were building blocks.
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Herodotus
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A geographer and Greece's first historian.
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Thucydides
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A Greek historian.  His detailed writing gives a glimpse of life in ancient Greece.
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Aristoltle
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One of Pato's students in the academy.  Collected and organized classified information.
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Plato
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A Greek philosopher and a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristoltle.
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Pericles
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Used much of his wealth to strengthen the city's defense walls.
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Phillip II
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King of Macedonia.  Brought people together under his rule.
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Alexander the Great
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He was tutored by Aristotle.  He became king of Macedonia.
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Euclid
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Worked in geometry.  He is called the Father of Geometry.
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Eratosthenes
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Used mathematics including geometry to estimate.
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Hypatia
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Headed a school of philosophy in Alexandria.
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Archimedes
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A scholar from Syracuse
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Aristarchus
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an astronomer of Samos
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