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33 Cards in this Set
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Academy
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philosophical school in Athens founded by Plato
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Aeschylus, Sophocles
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Greek tragic playwrights of the 5th century
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Alexander the Great
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son of Philip II, conquered the Persians, spread Greek culture
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Antigonus
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Alexander's general, ruled the Hellenistic Kingdom of Egypt
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Aristarchus
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Greek astronomer, thought the earth revovles around the sun
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Aristophanes
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Athenian comic playwright, only one known from the 400s BC.
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Aristotle
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Macedonian-born philosopher and writer, tutor of Alexander
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Cambyses
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Persian king, son of Cyrus, conquered Egypt for Persia
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Cyrus the Great
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founder of the Persian Empire, acquired vast territories in Asia
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Darius I
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King of Persia who ordered the Persian attack of Macedonia
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Darius III
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last king of Persia, defeated by Alexander, assassinated
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Delian League
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a defensice alliance led by Athens to guard against Persians
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Demosthenes
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greatest Athenian public speaker, warned about Philip II
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Dionysus
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Greek god of wine and immortality worshiped through drama
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Epaminondas
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general of Thebes, victor of Leuctra, killed at Mantinea
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Ephialtes
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Greek goat-herder who betrayed the Greeks at Thermoplyae
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Eratosthenes
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Greek mathematician who calculated the earth's circumference
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Euclid
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Greek mathematician at Alexandria, father of geometry
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Euripides
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Greek tragic playwright often called the ancient Shakespeare
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hellenization
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spread of Greek culture throughout the East by Macedonians
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Herodotus
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father of history, wrote a history of the Persian Wars
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Ionian Revolt
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Greek colonial rebellion in Anatolia against Persia, it failed
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Koine
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common form of Greek used by those conquered in the East
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Leonidas
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Spartan king, died with his 300 Spartans at Thermoplyae
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Long Walls
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30 foot high fortification from Athens to the Piraeus
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Lyceum
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school of philosophy founded in Athens by Aristotle
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Mardonius
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Persian general, failed at Mt. Athos, later killed at Plataea
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Museum
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first research institute, founded by Macedonians in Alexandria
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Parthenon
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temple to Athena built on Acropolis after the Persian Wars
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Peloponnesian League
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defensive alliance of Sparta and her neighbors against Athens
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Peloponnesian War
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long civil war between Sparta and Athens and their allies
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Pericles
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most influential statesman of Athens after the Persian Wars
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Persian Wars
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series of invasions in which Persia failed to conquer Greece
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