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27 Cards in this Set
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An area of land surrounded by water on three sides
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peninusula
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A long poem
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epic
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Rocky, protected hills, means "high city"
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acropolis
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Each one was not only a city, but also a separate independence state
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city-state
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Ruled a city-state
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aristocrat
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A ruler who seized power by force
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tyrant
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A form of government in which the people govern themselves
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democracy
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Greek poet; credited with composing the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey
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Homer
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Athenian statesman; made Athens more demacratic
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Solon
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An ancient city in northwestern Anatolia, the Asiatic part of Turkey; the site of the mythical Trojan War
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Troy
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Percent of Greece good for growing crops
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1/5
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Greece is a what?
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peninsula
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Most Greeks occupations
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traders and sailors
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Greeks most important stories are about
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the Trojan War
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The Trojan War started when who kidnapped Helen
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Paris
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How long did the Trojan War last
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10 years
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The Greeks won Trojan War buy using what
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Trojan Horse
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When was the The Dark Age of Greece
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1100s B.C.- 750 B.C.
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Early city-states where ruled by
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military officers
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At the end of Greece's Dark Age who ruled
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aristocrats
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After the aristocrats ruled Greece who overthrew them
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tyrants
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Tyrants were mainly supported by which class
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the middle and working classes
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What city-state fully expressed democracy
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Athens
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Three kinds of government in Greece's city-states were
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aristocracy, tyrantry, and democracy
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The group of Athenians that benefited democracy most was
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men citizens 18 years and older
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The Iliad and the Odyssey were two Greek
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epics
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What percent of Athenians were Citizens
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1/5
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