Sir Arthur John Evans was an English archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
Who is Arthur Evans?
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Greece is a country located in Southern Europe.
On what peninsula is Greek located?
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2,000,000 men
Who many people were in the Persian war?
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Battle of Thermopylae.
What battle did Leonidas die in?
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A long story poem.
What is the word epic?
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Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad an the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
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there are at least 6,000 islands in Greece.
How many islands are apart of Greece?
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it started in 499–449 BC
When did the Persian war start?
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Three hundred of his fellow Spartans stayed with him to fight and die.
How many people stayed with him and fought and died?
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A leader or orator who espoused the cause of the common people.
What is the word demagogue?
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Xerxes first of Persia, also known as Xerxes the Great, was the fourth of the king of the kings of the Achaean Empire.
Who is Xerxes?
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It is defined by a series of mountains, surrounded on all sides except the north by water, and endowed with countless large and small islands.
How much of the land consists of mountains?
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they used spears, arrows, bows, axes, and metal swords.
What weapons did they used?
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a narrow strip of land with sea on either side forming a link between two larger areas of land.
What is the word isthmus?
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Pericles was arguably the most prominent and influential Greek state man, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age-specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnese wars.
Who is Pericles?
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Much of the soils in Greece are made up of silty, sandy soil.
What type of soil is in Greece?
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The term "Indo-Persian armor" includes armor from Persia, Ottoman Empire, India and other nearby countries made in the Indo-Persian style.
What did they ware during the Persian war?
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the ancient citadel a Athens, containing the Parthenon and other notable buildings, mostly dating from the 5th century BC.
What is the word acropolis?
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Leonidas the first, was a Greek warrior king of the Greek city-state of Sparta.
Who is Leonidas?
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Mild and rainy winters, relatively warm and dry summer and generally extended periods of sunshine throughout most of the year.
What type of climate does Greece have?
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his was the longest highway in the Persian Empire.