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27 Cards in this Set
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Homer
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A great story teller, a blind man. He wrote epics such as the Iliad and The Odyssey
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Draco
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a Greek lawmaker who wrote the first legal code in 621 BC
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Solon
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a trusted statesman chosen by aristocrats in 594 BC to head the government to prevent civil war. He outlawed debt slavery.
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Cleisthenes
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an Athenian leader who in 508BC introduced further reforms. He worked to make Athens a full democracy by reorganizing the assembly to break up the power of nobility, allowed all citizens to submit laws, created Council of Five Hundred
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Darius
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Persian king who defeated rebels and vowed to destroy Athens
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Xerxes
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Darius' son and successor who tried to crush Greece. 7,000 Greeks blocked his way at Thermoplyae
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Pericles
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led Athens during it's Golden Age. He was honest and fair, a skillful politician, an inspiring speaker, and a respected general. His 3 goals: to strengthen Athenian democracy, to hold and strengthen the empire, to glorify Athens.
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Phidias
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the sculptor who aimed to create figured that were graceful, strong, and perfectly formed
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Aeschylus
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Wrote 80 plays(only 7 survived),most famous being the Oresteia(a tragedy)
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Sophocles
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Wrote about 100 plays including Oedipus The King and Antigone
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Euripides
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Author of the play Medea and often featured sympathetic portrayals of women
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Aristophanes
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wrote the first great comedies of the stage, The Birds and Lysistrata
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Thucydides
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an Athenian historian who recalled the Athenians defeat
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Phillip II
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king of Macedonia who quickly proved to be a brilliant general and a ruthless politician.
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Demosthenes
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Athenian orator who tried to warn Greeks of Phillip's threat
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Alexander the Great
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Phillip's son who goes on to conquer many near by lands, including Persia.
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Darius III
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The Persian king who ran from Macedonians to avoid being caught. He was eventually killed by one of his provincial governors.
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Antigonus
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became king and took control of city-states
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Ptolemy
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seized Egypt, took title as Pharaoh, established dynasty
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Seleucus
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took most of Persian Empire and renamed it the Seleucid Empire
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Aristarchus
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said sun was 300x the size of the earth, and that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun
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Ptolemy (Astronomer)
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incorrectly placed the earth at the center of the solar system
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Eratosthenes
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closely calculated Earth's true size. He was the director of the Alexandrian library.
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Euclid
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opened a school of Geometry
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Archimedes
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estimated pi, explained law of lever and invented pulley. Invented Archimedes screw(raised water from the ground) and a catapult.
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Zeno
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founded school of philosophy: Stoicism
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Epicurus
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founded school of philosophy: Epicureanisn
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