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Cyrus the Great
Led a Persian Revolt
calvary
a unit of soldiers who ride horeses
Darius I
Killed his rivals for power
Persian Wars
a series of wars between Persia and Greece
Xerxes I
Tried to conquer Greece
alliance
an agreement to work together
Peloponnesian War
a war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear Greece APART
Philip II
became king of Macedonia in 359 BC
Phalanx
a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
Alexander the Great
He went south to revolt in Thebes
Hellenistic
Greek-like
Socrates
Believed that people should never stop looking for knowledge
Plato
Was a student of Socrates
Aristotle
The greatest greek thinker
reason
clear and ordered thinking
Euclid
spent his life studying
Hippocrates
the greatest greek doctor