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32 Cards in this Set
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Marathon
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Place where Persians crushed the rebel cities in 490 bc
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Phillip 2
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Father of Alexander who brought all of Greece udner his control
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Herodotus
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historian who casts a critical eye on his sources
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Sophocles
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tragedy playwrite who wrote about the deaths
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Thuycidies
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historian hwo wrote about the Peloponnesian War
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Sophocles
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tragedy playwrite who wrote about the deaths
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Thuycidies
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Historian who wrote about eh Peloponnisian war
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solon
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wise and trusted leader who outlawed slavery and introduced reforms
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Eratoashenes
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showed trhat the earth was round and accurately calculated its circumfrance
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Darius
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King of persoa who fought in the Peloponnisian Wat against Athens
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Schliemann
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businessman who set out to prove that the Torjan war existed
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Mycenaenans
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conquered and overan Crete: sea traders who dominated the Aegean from 1400bc to 1200 bc
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Pericles
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a statesman who helped the economy thrive and the goernment become more democratic
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Minoan
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People who lived on Crete
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Cleisthenes
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reformer who broadened the role of ordinary citizens in government
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Macedonia
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backward, rugged land that was ruled by Phillip
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Aristotle
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Plato's most famous student who set up the Lyceum
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Oligarchy
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power is in the hands of the small people
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Euripides
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tragedy writer who survived the Peloponnesioan War
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Trojan War
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1250 bc
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Periclean Age
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460-429 bc
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Pelopennasion War
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431-404 bc
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Founding of Rome
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753 bc
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Punic Wars
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264-146 bc
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Julius Caesar
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48-44 bc
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Pax Romana
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27bc-180as endee with Marcus Aurelias
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Fall of Rome
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476 ad
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Masada's Fall
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73 ad
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Josehpus
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an eyewitness that wrote about Masada
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Battle Numbers
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900 jews vs 5000 romans
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Polio
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man who tells Claudius that his father was poisoned
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Varus
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general who lost 3 legions in Germany to the rebels
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