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the name of the peninsula upon which the Greek mainland is located
Balkan
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A Greek city-state was known as what?
polis
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the first Athenian victory against the Persians in 490 BCE
Battle at Marathon
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After his father's assassination in 336 BCE this person became leader of the Greek army -
Alexander
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This famous Greek was known as "The Father of History" -
Herodotus
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Because this ancient Greek doctor believed that diseases came from natural causes and created a list of rules for doctors, he is regarded as "the father of medicine".
Hippocrates
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the sea where islands of Greece are located
Aegean
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The name of the hilltop fort at the center of each polis -
acropolis or high city
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the battle at which 300 Spartan warriors slowed the Persian attack of Greece in 480 BCE
Battle at Thermopylae
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After crushing Persian forces at Granicus in 334 BCE, Alexander then led his forces to defeat Darius III and the Persians at this place -
Issus
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This Greek historian was a general in and wrote about this war -
The Peloponnesian War
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branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another
plane geometry
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rugged mountains and deep valleys made communities in Greece this
fiercely independent
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The name for the Greek marketplace outside of the acropolis -
agora
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name fo the sea battle won by the Greeks over the Persians in 480 BCE
Battle of Salamis
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In 331 BCE this city was named by Alexander in Egypt -
Alexandria
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a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields
philosopher
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this Greek mathematician advanced the field of mathematics by describing plane geometry in his book called Elements -
Euclid
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the island, city, and king associated with the Minoans
Crete, Knossos, and King Minos
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Name for citizen solider of ancient Greece -
hoplites
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the name for the land battle in 479 BCE where the Greeks defeated the Persians
Battle of Plataea
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What happened to Alexander after defeating the Persian Empire, defeating some armies in India, and returning to Babylon in 323 BCE?
Alexander died
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Early group of Greek philosophers who travelled to different places and taught how to debate ideas and speak in public -
Sophists
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established the science of physics and explained the lever and compound pulley
Archimedes
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Mycenaeans were originally from where?
Central Asia
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Name for the Greek battle formation featuring hoplites marching shoulder to shoulder in rows -
phalanx
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the name for the defensive league founded to protect all Greek city-states from outside threats located on the island of Delos
The Delian League
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What era began after the death of Alexander the Great?
The Hellenistic Era
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Greek philosopher who used questioning to better understand the nature of things -
Socrates
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the Athenian leader that reposnded to farmers calls to action by ending their debts and freeing slaves in 594 BCE -
Solon
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Myceanaean civilization was greatly influenced by this civilization's culture -
Minoan
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Someone who seizes power and rules with total authority -
tyrant
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the leader of Athens during its age of prosperity from 461 BCE to 429 BCE
Pericles
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The art of the Hellenistic Greeks expressed the ideas of what three things?
reason, balance, and harmony
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Greek philosopher who was a student of Socrates, founded the Academy, and wrote The Republic -
Plato
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tyrant who took over Athenian government in 560 BCE dividing large estates among farmers who had no land, provided loans to farmers to buy tools, gave citizenship to Athenians who didn't own land, and hired the poor to build construct temples and other public works projects
Peisistratus
700
This group invaded from the north with iron weapons and took control of the region of the Mycenaeans -
Dorians
700
Name for a collection of fables from ancient Greece
Aesop's Fables
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the name for the war that came as a consequnce of Athens abusing its power in the Delian League
The Peloponnesian War
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To which goddess was the Parthenon in Athens dedicated?
Athena
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Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato, studied the stars, plants, and animals and classified living things according to their slimilarities and differences -
Aristotle
700
under Peisistratus this noble restored democracy by making the assembly the city-state's major governing body, and helped to create a new council of 500 citizens to manage government affairs
Cleisthenes
800
The people who returned to Greece in around 750 BCE after the Greek Dark Age called themselves what?
The Hellenes
800
powerful empire centered in what is today the country of Iran
Persian Empire
800
this city-state ruled other Greek city-states harshly after the end of the Peloponnesian War
Sparta
800
What three types of columns were created by the Greeks that are used in buildings today?
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
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the philosophy that stated that people should not try to feel joy or sadness
Stoicism
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form of democracy in which all citizens can participate firsthand in the decision-making process
direct democracy
900
The Greeks adopted their alphabet from these people -
The Phoenicians
900
the monotheistic religion adopted by most Persians at this time -
Zoroastrianism
900
After the Peloponnesian War weakended many Greek city-states, this city-state to the north was growing in strength -
Macedonia
900
The Greeks created and performed stories written in the form of a play called what?
dramas
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Greek thinker who studied astronomy and mathematics as well as making discoveries and developing theories by observing and thinking -
Thales
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form of democracy where citizens elect officials to govern on their behalf
representative democracy
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Between 750 and 550 BCE the Greeks founded these things along the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Seas -
colonies
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a Perian territory governed by an official known as a satrap
satrapy
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Name for the king of Macedonia who led his army to victory over all the city-states of Greece -
Phillip II
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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes were famous for what in ancient Greece?
playwrights
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This Greek mathematician believed that all relationships could be expressed in numbers and developed the Pythagorean Theorem to detemine the length of the sides of a triangle -
Pythagoras