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Ancient Greece

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Protector of the kingdom: Persian States   Satraps  
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Thinker who seeks wisdom and ponder questions about life   Philosophers  
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Enforce laws and collect taxes in sparta   Ephors  
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Form of government used by spartans   Oligarchy  
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Like a tiny, independent country   Polis  
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Open area used for a meeting place and a market   Agora  
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Focused on government and education   Athens  
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Age of creativity and learning in Athens   Age of Pericles  
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Rules with full authority   Tyrant  
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King of Persia   Cyrus the Great  
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Ordinary citizens in the army   Hoplites  
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Workers hauled 20,000 tons of marble and took 15 years to build   Perthenon  
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A body of land with water on three sides   Peninsula  
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Could not leave home without a male relative   Upper class Athenian women  
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A narrow body of water with land on both sides   Straight  
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Became popular by giving land to landless farmers   Peisistrus  
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Why did Xerxes want to conquer Greece   To increase his country's wealth, to win glory, and for revenge  
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What did the Mycenaean learn from the Minoans   Navigation by the sun and stars  
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How did the early Greeks survive   Fishing, trading, and herding goats and sheep  
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Who could be citizens of Greek city-states   Free, native born, land owning men  
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Who wrote the history of the Persian wars   Herodotus  
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Where did the Mycenaeans come to Greece from   The Mycenaeans came from Central Asia  
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In a direct democracy who decides government matters   All the people  
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Xerxes was a king of   Persia  
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Why did the Spartans place so much stress on military service   The Spartans placed so much stress on military service because they were afraid that the Helots might rebel someday.  
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Dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story   Sophocles  
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Highest mountain in Greece   Mount Olympus  
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Chief god of the Greeks   Zues  
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Dramatist who questioned traditional thinking about war   Euripedes  
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Wrote plays that poked fun at politicians and encouraged the audience to think   Aristophanes  
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How did the Greeks favor their gods and goddesses   Performed rituals  
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Goddess of wisdom   Athena  
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Odyssey   Homer  
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A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people, or something in the natural world   Myth  
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Words or action that are part of a religious ceremony   Ritual  
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A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess   Oracle  
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A story meant to teach a lesson   Fable  
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The custom of passing along stories by speech   Oral tradition  
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A story written in the form of a play   Drama  
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A play or film in which characters fail to overcome serious problems   Tragedy  
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A play or film that that tells a humerus story   Comedy  
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Taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers   Pythagores  
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Considered by some to be the greatest historian of the ancient world   Thucydides  
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"The father of history"   Herodutus  
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Taught absolute right and wrong did exist (sentenced to death for his teachings)   Socrates  
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Thought government should be headed by philosopher-kings   Plato  
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Greece’s northern neighbor   Macedonia  
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A commander in the army at 16 and a king at 20 ( built one of the greatest cities in the world and named it after himself) His armies conquered land as far east as modern Pakistan   Alexander  
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One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world   Lighthouse of Alexandria  
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Tried to warn the Athenians that Philip 2 was a threat to them   Demosthenes  
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A time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world   Hellenistic Era  
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Taught that happiness came from reason and doing one’s duty   Stoics  
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Taught that happiness, the goal of life, came from spending time with friends   Epicurus  
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Studied how points, lines, angles, and planes relate to one another (Told King Ptolemy - “There is no royal way to learn geometry.”   Euclid  
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”Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”   Archimedes  
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An astronomer who taught that the sun was the center of the universe   Aristarchus  
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