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HI 101-2
pg. 62-67
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| balkan peninsula | what mountain range extends into the Mediterranean sea from the southeastern Europe |
| attica and peloponnesus | two prominent regions of ancient greece |
| minoans | the first important European civilization after the flood |
| ionians | Mycenaean escaped from the Dorian to Asia minor and Attica where they became known as |
| hellenes | Greeks who made a great contribution to western civilization |
| homer | who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey |
| acropolis | the typical polis surrounded a hilltop fortress called what |
| agora | another name for marketplace |
| barbarians | people who did not speak Greek |
| Athens, Eretria, and Sparta | refused to be part of the Persian empire and under Darius I |
| 490 BC | when the Greco-Persian war |
| Xerxes I | determined to conquer Greece |
| thermopylae | a narrow mountain pass in central Greece near the Aegean sea |
| battle of salamis | the first major naval battle in history |
| 479 BC | when was the battle of plataea |
| Xerxes defeat in Greece | turning point in world history |