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23 Cards in this Set
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Epic
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A long Poem that tells a story
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acropolis
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a high rocky hill where early people built cities
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city state
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a city with its own traditions, goverment and laws; both a city and a separate independent state
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aristrocrat
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a memeber of a rich and powerful family
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tyrant
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a ruler who takes power with the support of the middle and workng classes
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democracy
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a form of goverment in which citizens govern themselves
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immortal
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someone or something that lives forever
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oracle
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in ancient Greece a cacred site used to consult a god or goddess, any priest or priestess who spoke for the gods.
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philosopher
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someone who used reason to understand the world;in Greece the earliest philosphers used reason to explain natural events.
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tragedy
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a type of serious drama that ends in disaster for the main character
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Athens
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a city -state in ancient Greece, the capital of the modern day Greece
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Agora
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a public market and meeting place in an ancient Greece city; the Agora spelled with a campital A, refers to the Agora of Athens.
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Vendor
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a seller of goods
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slavery
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condition of being owned by and forced to work for someone else
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sparta
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a city-state in ancient Greece
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helots
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in ancient Sparta, the term for slaves who where owned by the state
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Peloponnesian War
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a war fought between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece; almost every other Greek city-state was involved in the war
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plague
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a widespread disease
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blockade
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an action taken to isolate the ememy and cut off its supplies
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assassinate
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to murder for political reasons
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alexander the great
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king of macedonia conquered persia and egypt and invaded india
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peninsula
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an are of land nearly surround by water
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tribute
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a payment made by a less powerful state or nation to a more powerful one
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