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20 Cards in this Set
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Aristocrats
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Wealthy Nobles who controlled the government in Sparta
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Ephors
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Title given to the five officials who led the spartan assembly
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Draco
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The leader of Athens became a dictator with strict laws like Hammurabi
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Democracy
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The type of government that allows people to make decisions
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Peisistratus
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The leader of Athens became the Robin Hood of Greece by taking lands from the wealthy and giving them to the poor
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Helots
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The enslaved farmers of the spartan city state
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Peloponnesus
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The region of the location of the spartan city state
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Oligarchy
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The form of government where a few people rule
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Solon
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The leader of Athens that created the constitution or set of rules and laws
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Perioeci
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In spartan society they were the merchants and craftsman of the villages
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Marathon
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The battle that the Greeks sneak attack the Persians while they will get their ships
The running event that was created in Greece during the Persian Wars |
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Thermopylae pericle
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The battle that the Spartans hold off the Persian while the Athenians prepared for battle
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Pericles
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The Greek leader that led Athens to its Golden Age of power and culture
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Darius/xerxes
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The two Persian leaders that were defeated by the Greeks in battle
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Salamis
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The naval battle that the Greeks defeat the Persians ships through a straight one at a time
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Peloponnesian Wars
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The name of the wars between Athens and Sparta that brought about the end of the golden age of Athens
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Delian League
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Greek Alliance of city state that joined together in times of war
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Phalanx
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The military formation that had soldier lines with overlapping shields 16 rows deep
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Hellenistic
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Greek culture mixed with Persian, Egyptian and Mid-East culture
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