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10 Cards in this Set
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Demosthenes |
an Athenian orator and statesman known for his political speeches on the need to resist the aggressive tendencies of Phillip II of Macedon |
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Dorians |
possibly relatives of the bronze aged Greeks who replaced the Mycenaeans; cultuure declines under their rule. |
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Mycenaeans |
indo-europeans who settled on greek mainland in 2000 bc |
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Rhodes |
a Hellenistic bronze sculpture over 100 ft tall of Alexander The Great |
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Phalanx |
feared by all, a formation of soldiers with spears and sheilds |
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Peloponnesian |
a war between Athens and Sparta over power of Greece in which Athens lost |
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Euclid |
Greek mathematician and pioneer in geometry |
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Alexander |
King Phillip II's son who ruled over Macedonia and created a massive empire. known as "______ the Great" |
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Classical |
Art that values harmony, order, balance and proportion and beauty |
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Spartans |
a military city- state that had the most powerful army in Greece |
