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18 Cards in this Set
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the hill above a city on which temples were built
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acropolis
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a temple honnoring the goddess Athena, built on acropolis above Athens
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Parthenon
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a traditional story that helps to explain cultyres belifes
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myth
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the art of designing buildings
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architecture
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the art of creating three-demensional figures from such materials as wood,stone, and clay
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sculpture
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the art of writing, acting in, and producing plays
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drama
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the search for wisdom or knowledge
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philosophy
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a country or group that joins with another for a common purpose
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to choose someone to fill an office or position
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appoint
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the branch of mathmatics involving points, lines, planes, and figures
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geometry
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a measure of how far a pkace on Earth is from an imagenary line that runs between the North and South Poles on the globe
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longitude
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a measure of how far a place on Earth is from the equater
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latitude
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people from the ancient country of Latium, an area in what is now the country of Italy
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Latins
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one of the seven hills in ancient Rome
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Palatine
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an irrigatin system invented by the Etruscans
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coniculus
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a person who trained to fight another person to the death of public entertainment
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gladiator
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a group of 300 men elected to govern Rome in the Roman Republic
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Senate
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one of 2 cheif leaders in the Roman Republic
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consul
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