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21 Cards in this Set
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Homer
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Author of the Iliad and the odyssey
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Cleisthenes
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Created a 500 person legislature
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Solon
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Archon/Chief Official of Athens in 594 BC, outlawed debt slavery, gave more citizens positions in office, and began the olive oil trade
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Pericles
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Established a direct democracy in Athens
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Socrates
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Philosopher, created the Socratic Method, where people question everything, Taught Plato
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Plato
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Philosopher, author of the Republic, described ideal government of philosopher kings, taught Aristotle
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Aristotle
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Philosopher, set up school the Lyceum, thought of golden mean
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Herodotus
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Father of history, wrote of the Persian War
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Thucydides
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Historian who wrote of the Peloponnesian War
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Aristophanes
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Wrote Greek Comedies
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Euripides
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Wrote Greek Tragedies
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Sophocles
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Wrote Greek Tragedies
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Phillip II
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King of Macedonia who conquered Greece
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Alexander the Great
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Took the throne from his father Phillip II, created a large empire
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Zeno
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Founder of Stoicism, which emphasized accepting disappointment and calamity
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Aristarchus
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Created a heliocentric theory of astronomy
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Eratosthenes
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Heliocentric Astronomer, found that the Earth was round and calculated it’s circumference
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Archimedes
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Heliocentric Astronomer, mastered use of a lever pulley system
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Pythagoras
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Mathematician, discovered the Pythagorean Theorem
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Hippocrates
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Doctor, Created Hippocratic Oath
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Euclid
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Mathematician, discovered Euclidian geometry, wrote textbook The Elements
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