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17 Cards in this Set
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The main geographical features of Greece are:
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It is a peninsula. It is very mountainous. It includes many islands.
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A Bronze Age people who lived on the island of Crete and developed a broad sea trade network.
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The Minoans
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The early culture on mainland Greece who spread their power through conquest
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The Myceneans
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Two epic poems about the Trojan War written by the poet, Homer
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The Iliad and the Odssey
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A long struggle between Greece and the city of Troy (which is in present day Turkey)
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The Trojan War
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A period of about 350 years after the Trojan war when Greek civilization collapsed
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The Dark Ages of Greece
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Hundreds of these developed after the Greek Dark Ages
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city-states
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Aristocratic governments were replaced by ___________, who were supported by the middle classes
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tyrants
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Many city-states overthrew the tyrants and adopted this type of government
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democracy
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The laws developed by ______________ allowed Athens to become the leading democracy of the ancient world
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Solon
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A great leader of the Golden Age of Athens
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Pericles
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Pericles greatest accomplishment
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the construction of the Parthenon
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The Parthenon was
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a temple to honor the goddess Athena, Patron of Athens
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The family of gods and goddesses worshipped by the Greeks
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the Twelve Olympians
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Mt. Olympus
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the highest mountain in Greece from which they believed the god, Zeus, ruled
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the most important Greek philosophers
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Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
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The Athenians were the first people known to
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write dramas
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