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15 Cards in this Set
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Cyrus the great |
The person who led the people against the medes, gaining independence for his people |
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Cavalry |
A unit of soldiers who ride horses |
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Darius I |
A persian emperor who worked to restore order in Persia by building roads and other improvements |
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Persian Wars |
A series of wars between Persia and Greece |
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Alliance |
An agreement to work together |
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Peloponnesian war |
War between Athens and Sparta the threatened to tear Greece apart |
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Philip II |
Defeated invaders and launched innovations and targeted Greece (father od Alexander) |
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Phalanx |
A group of warriors that stood together in a square |
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Alexander the great |
Conquered Thebes one of the greatest military commander ever, spread Greek culture everywhere |
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Socrates |
Taught Plato |
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Plato |
Created the academy and wrote "The Republic" |
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Artistole |
Taught Alexander |
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Reason |
Clear and ordered thinking |
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Euclid |
One of the greatest mathematicians who influenced current geometry |
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Hippocrates |
The Greek doctor who worked to figure out what caused diseases, didn't blame the gods |
