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31 Cards in this Set
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Minoans
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the earliest civilization in the vicinity of Greece
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Knossos
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the capital of the Minoans
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Mycenaeans
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the earliest civilization on the mainland of Greece
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Mycenae
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the city for which the Mycenaeans are named
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Dorians
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the invaders from the north which destroyed the Mycenaeans
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Homer
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a blind poet who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad
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Smyrna
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the city where Homer lived
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Mount Olympus
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the mountian on which the gods supposedly lived
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Zeus
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the king of the Greek gods
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Apollo
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the Greek god of the sun
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Poseidon
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the Greek god of the sea
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Artemis
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the Greek god of the moon
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heroes
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glorified human beings
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Achilles and Odysseus
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two great warriors in Greek mythology
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polis
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city-state
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acropolis
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seat of government and religion
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agora
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marketplace
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776 B.C.
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the first recorded date in Greek history; the first Olympic games
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Cyrus the Great
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a great Persian king who conquered Lydia and Ionia
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Darius I
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the Persian king after Cyrus the Great who crushed the Ionian revolt and attacked the Greek mainland
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The Battle of Marathon
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the battle in which the greatly outnumbered Athenians drove the Persians back to their ships
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Xerxes I
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the Persian king after Darius I who again tried to conqure the Greeks
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Hellespont
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the Bosperous Strait
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Thermopylae
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a narrow mountain pass in central Greece about six miles from the Aegean Sea
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Leonidas
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the Spartan king who blocked the Persian advance toward Athens
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Salamis
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the island which the thenians fled to once Athens was taken
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monarchy
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rule by one
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aristocracy
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rule by the "best"
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oligarchy
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rule by a few rather than one or many; rule by a few rich men
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tyranny
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a bad form of one-man rule
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democracy
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rule by the many or the common people; rule by the poor
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