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66 Cards in this Set
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A vast palace where rulers of Minoa lived
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Knossos
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Areas dedicated to gods/goddesses
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Shrines
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Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster
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Frescoes
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A war (perhaps fictional) between Mycenae and Troy
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Trojan War
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Narrow water passages
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Straits
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A blind poet who is thought to have made up "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey"
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Homer
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Greek word for city-state
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Polis
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High city
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Acropolis
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Free residents
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Citizens
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A government headed w/ a monarch
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Monarchy
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Rule by heredity landholding elite
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Aristocracy
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Power in the hands of the small wealthy elite
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Oligarchy
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A massive tactical formation of armed foot soldiers
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Phalanx
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A greek city-state where Dorians settled
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Sparta
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A city-state located in Greece, named after Athena
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Athens
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Government by the people
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Democracy
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People who gained power by force
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Tyrants
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Lawmaking body
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Legislature
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Good dictator who took over Athens, and he released debters from prison and cancelled all debt
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Solon
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Another dictator, set up the Council of 500
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Cleisthenes
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Priest of priestess through whom the gods where thought to speak
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Oracles
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Someone who didn't speak Greek
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Barbarian
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A formal agreement between two or more nations to cooperate and come to one another's defense
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Alliance
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Statesman, wise/skillfull leadership
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Pericles
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System of government where citizens take direct part in it
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Direct democracy
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Fixed salary
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Stipend
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Someone who is (by vote) banished for 10 years
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Ostracism
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Means "lovers of wisdom", thinkers
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Philosophers
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Rational thinking
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Logic
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The art of skillfull speaking
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Rhetoric
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A philosopher who used questions and opinions to seek truth
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Socrates
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Socrates' student, wrote "The Republic", formed "The Academy"
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Plato
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Plato's student, how people should live, liked science, "Lyceum" was his school.
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Aristotle
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A temple dedicated to Athena
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Parthenon
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Plays that told of human suffering
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Tragedies
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Humorous plays that mocked people or customs
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Comedies
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"Father of History", wrote history of the world
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Herodotus
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Took over most of Europe, student of Aristotle
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Alexander the Great
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Conquered Greece, powerful army, father of Alexander
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Philip II
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Murder of a public figure
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Assassination
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City at the heart of the Hellenistic world
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Alexandria
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Devised a triangle formula
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Pythagoras
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Sun-centered/solar system
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Heliocentric
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Studied causes of illnesses
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Hippocrates
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An alliance between Athens and other city-sates (not Sparta)
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The Delion League
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A panel of citizens who have authority to make final judgment on a trial
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Jury
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A people who lived in the north of Rome, in the region of Tuscany
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Etruscans
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A government where the ppl choose the officials
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Republic
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Some who's job it is to supervise the business of gov. and command the armies
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Consuls
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Ruler who has compete control over a gov.
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Dictator
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The farmers, merchants, artisans, and traders
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Plebians
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Block
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Veto
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A basic military unit which is 5,000 men
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Legion
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Establishing control over foreign lands and peoples
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Imperialism
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Wealthy families bought up huge estates, big plantations
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Latifundia
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Attempted to reform Roman gov. distributed land to poor
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Tiberius Gracchus
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Brother of Tiberius, public funds to buy grain for poor
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Gaius Gracchus
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"Exalted One", Had absolute power, set up postal service
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Augustus Octavian
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Population count
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Census
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Codified Roman law, had soldiers build a wall to hold back attackers
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Hadrian
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Wrote "Aeneid" (epic poem), tried to show Rome was as good as Greece
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Virgil
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To make fun of
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Satirize
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Picture made from chips of colored stone and glass
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Mosaic
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Bridgelike stone structures that carried water from the hills to Roman cities
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Aqueducts
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Believed the Earth was the center of the universe
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Ptolemy
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Plebian elected officials
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Tribunes
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