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Greece Part 2
Ancient Greece: Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Philip II | King of Macedonia and conquered Greece in 338 B.C. |
| Macedonia | an ancient kingdom north of Greece, whose ruler Philip II conquered Greece in 388 B.C. |
| Alexander the Great | Son of Philip II |
| Darius III | Persian King |
| Hellenistic | relating to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century |
| Alexandria | Egyptian city that was the center of commerce and the Hellenistic civilization. |
| Euclid | a mathematician who taught in Alexandria |
| Archimedes | Hellenistic scientist who studied at Alexandria. |
| Colossus of Rhodes | an enormous Hellenistic statue that formerly stood near the harbor of Phodes. |
| Mycenaean | an Indo- European person who settled on the Greek mainland about 2000 B.C. |
| Trojan War | a war, fought around 1200 B.C., in which an army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy in Anatolia |
| Dorian | a Greek-speaking people that, according to tradition, migrated to the mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization. |
| Homer | the greatest storyteller who was a blind man |
| epic | a long narrative poem celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes. |
| myth | a traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. |
| helot | in the society of ancient Sparta, a peasant bound to the land. |
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