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Gr 7 History Ch 6
Grade 7 History Ch 6 Review - People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Javan | Japheth's son who was the ancestor of the Greeks |
| Minoans | the people who built the earliest civilization in the vicinity of Greece |
| Mycenaeans | the people who flourished on the mainland of Greece between 1600 and 1200 BC |
| Dorians | invaders from the north who helped to bring about a dark age in Greece which started about 1200 BC |
| Homer | the blind poet who greatly influenced Greek culture and portrayed the gods as glorified human beings |
| Achilles and Odysseus | great warriors in Greek mythology |
| Cyrus the Great | the Persian emperor who conquered Ionia in 546 BC |
| Darius I | the Persian king who crushed the Ionian revolt and demanded that the mainland Greeks submit to him |
| Xerxes | the king who launched a secone Perisan invasion of Greece |
| Leonidas | the brave leader of the Spartans at Thermopylae |
| Solon | an aristocrat who introduced democratic principles to Athenian government |
| Pericles | the aristocrat who brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure |
| Socrates | the philosopher who insisted that morality be a part of philosophy |
| Plato | the philosopher who wrote thirty or more works called dialogues |
| Aristotle | the philosopher who recognized order, design, and the purpose in the universe; teacher of young Alexander the Great |
| Philip II | the Macedonian king who conquered almost all of Greece before he was assissinated |
| Alexander the Great | the young Greek conqueror of Persia |
| Ptolemy | the general who took Egypt after Alexander's death |
| Antipater | the general who took Macedonia after Alexander's death |
| Laomedon | the general who took Syria, including all of Canaan, after Alexander's death |
| Thucydides | the author of History of the Peloponnesian War |