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Unit Test - S.S.

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show A Greek community with its traditions, government and laws  
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Helots   show
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Hellenism   show
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Tragedy   show
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show A long poem that tells a story  
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Monarchy   show
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Tyranny   show
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show A government ruled by a few wealthy powerful families  
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Oligarchy   show
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show A form of government in which citizens govern themselves  
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Diffusion   show
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show A nearness in place, time, order, occurrence , or relation  
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Agora   show
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show A high, rocky hill on which early people built cities  
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show A payment made by a less powerful state or nation to a more powerful one  
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show A Greek epic; credited to poet Homer, telling about quarrels among Greek leaders in the last year of the Trojan War.  
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Odyssey   show
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Hoplite   show
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Philosopher   show
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show The military strategy that Alexander used to defeat larger armies  
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show The chief temple of the Greek goddess Athena on the hill of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece  
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show Was the most important shrine in all of Greece, and in theory all Greeks respected its independence. Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered to be the omphalos - the center (literally navel) of the world  
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show Of or pertaining to the Olympic games; an event passed down from ancient Greek in honor Greek god Zeus  
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Minoans   show
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Mycenaeans   show
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show The supreme deity if the ancient Greeks, a son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon, and father of a number of gods, demigods, and mortals; the god of the heavens, identified by the Romans with Jupiter.  
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show The god of the Underworld  
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Poseidon   show
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show The virgin deity of the ancient Greeks worshipped as the goddess of wisdom, fertility, the useful art, and prudent warfare. At her birth, she sprang forth fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus  
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show The god of light, poetry, music, healing, and prophecy: son of Zeus and Leto, and brother to Artemis  
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show An ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon  
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show The goddess of love and beauty  
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show The ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus. Goddess of marriage and family  
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show The ancient Greek god of fire, metalworking, and the handicrafts, identified by the Romans with Vulcan  
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Hermes   show
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show Example of Greek column  
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show A member of one of the four main divisions of the prehistoric Greeks who invaded the Greek mainland and, after the Dorian invasions, emigrated to the Aegean islands and the coast of Asia Minor.  
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Corinthian order   show
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show An Oar-powered warship.  
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show The period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean palatial civilization around 1100 BC, to the first signs of the Greek poleis in the 9th century BC.  
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Bronze Age   show
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show The Classical period, sometimes called the Hellenic period, corresponds to most of the 5th and 4th centuries BC (the most common dates being the fall of the last Athenian tyrant in 510 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC).  
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show Covers the period of ancient Greek (Hellenic) history and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC  
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Leonidas   show
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Xerxes   show
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Themistocles   show
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Homer   show
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show King of Ithaca; son of Laertes; one of the heroes of lliad and protagonist of the Odyssey; shrewdest of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.  
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show A king of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War and was murdered by Clytemnestra, his wife, upon his return from Troy  
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show The beautiful daughter of of Zeus and Leda, and the wife of menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan war.  
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Paris   show
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show The greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of Homer’s Iliad. He killed Hector and was killed when Paris wounded him in the heel, his one vulnerable spot, with an arrow; the son of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis  
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show King of Troy  
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Menelaus   show
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show (Born in 290 B.C.) Greek inventor and mathematician; invented formulas for the surface area and volume of a sphere.  
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Euclid   show
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Pericles   show
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Socrates   show
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Plato   show
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Aristotle   show
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show (382 B.C. – 336 B.C.) King of Macedonia; seized power in 359 B.C.; conquered the Greek city-states; father of Alexander the Great.  
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