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The Early Greeks
The City States
Wars
Important People
Religion & Culture
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the first people to live in the area known as Greece; they made their living as traders
Who are the Minoans?
100
a Greek city state
What is a polis?
100
the city state that focused on military service
What is Sparta?
100
the inventor of plane geometry
Who is Euclid?
100
stories the Greeks told to make sense of natural events
What are myths?
200
the time between 1100 B.C. and 750 B.C. when people forgot how to read and write so no history was recorded.
What is the Dark Ages?
200
the best known example of Greek architecture
What is the Parthenon?
200
a war between Sparta and Athens that lasted 27 years
What is The Peloponnesian War?
200
a great leader who made Athens more democratic
Who is Pericles?
200
the name of the Persian religion
What is Zoroastrianism?
300
the city state that focused on government and education
What is Athens?
300
the person who wrote the history of the Persian War
Who is Herodotus?
300
military leader who got Greeks to join him by conquering, inviting, and bribing them
Who is Phillip II?
300
a drama with a happy ending
What is a comedy?
400
the city captured by a hollow wooden horse
What is Troy?
400
citizen soldiers
What is a hoplite?
400
an alliance to protect the Greeks from the Persians after the Persian Wars
What is the Delian League?
400
He is considered the greatest historian of the ancient world.
Who is Thucydides?
400
the two groups of philosophers who disagreed about how to achieve happiness
Who are the Stoics and Epicureans?
500
the first "Greek" civilization; came after the Minoans
Who are the Myceneans?
500
the marketplace just below the acropolis in every city state
What is the agora?
500
Greece's northern neighbor who attacked them in order to gain an army to invade Persia
What is Macedonia?
500
the most famous scientist of the Hellenistic era
Who is Archimedes?
500
the highest mountain in Greece; home of the gods
What is Olympus?