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Marathon

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A site of a Greek victory northeast of Athens

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Alexander the Great

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Conquered all of the known ancient world

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Tyranny

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Government by an individual who seizes power by force

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Alexandria

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Intellectual trading city of North Africa

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Hellenic

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A blend of Persian, Greek, Indian, and Egyptian influence

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Zeno

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Founded stoic philosophy

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Iron slashing sword

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The advantage possessed by the Dorians

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Polis

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A city state

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Agamemnon

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Achaean leader who invaded Troy

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Acropolis

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Hilltop fortress

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Delian league

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An alliance of Greek city states fearing Persia

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Homer

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Poet responsible for the Iliad and the odyssey

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Knossos

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Capital city of Minoans

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Darius

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Persian ruler during the battle of marathon

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Euclid

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A famous Hellenic mathematician

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Aegean

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Sea off the Eastern coast of Greece

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Thales

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First Greek philosopher

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Sappho

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Female lyric poet from Lesbos

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Plato

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Wrote The Republic and The Dialogues

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Dorians

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Their invasion began a dark age in Greece

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Achaeans

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Indo-Europeans who eventually conquered all of Greece

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Phalanx

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A tight, massive formation of armed foot soldiers

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Aristophanes

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Comedic writer of The Clouds

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Pelonnesian league

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An anti Athenian group of city states

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Helots

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Slaves outnumbering Spartans 20 to 1

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Comedians

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Ridiculed people, ideas, and social structures

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Solon

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Reformer who abolished debt slavery and limited land ownership

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Tragedies

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Dramas that usually ended in disaster

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Aristotle

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Student of Plato and the teacher of Alexander

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Themistocles

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Pushed to build a large fleet of Triremes

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Ephors

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Chosen to oversee the daily affairs of Sparta

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Thales

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First Greek philosopher

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Pisistratus

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Claimed rulership by arriving on horse with Athena

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Epicurus

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Believed the greatest good was in happiness

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Dionysus

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The Greek god of wine

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Monarchy

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First government of ancient Athens

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Philip of Macedon

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Opportunist who conquered all of Ancient Greek

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Euripides

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Tragedy writer and supporter of women and slaves

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Schliemann

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Discoverer of what might have been ancient Troy

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Minoans

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Trading culture on the island of Crete

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Philosopher

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Means seeker of wisdom

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Alexander organize these to spread Greek culture throughout the known world

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Mass marriages

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He believes one should enjoy life’s pleasures rather than worrying about the after life

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Epicurus

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They helped Spartans my loading them a navy

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The Persians

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Why the Corinthians demands for thens destruction didn’t happen

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The Spartans respected the Athenians

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How the Greeks voted during the democracy

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Olive leaves, hand raising, pebbles

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A method used to limit power

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Ostracism

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What motivated potters

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Competition

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Western city group organized by Spartans

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The Peloponnesian league

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Wrote Oedipus Rex

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Sophocles

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Conversational question-and-answer way of learning and teaching

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The socratis method

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Plato wrote these two novels

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The republic and the dialogs

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Three major components of Greek drama

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Actors, the stage, robes, masks, a chorus

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Spartan troops did this every year during the Peloponnesian war

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Seized Athens and burned crops and homes

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The harbor of Athens

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Piraeus

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The only ones allowed to participate in Athenian government

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Land owning adult males

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A famous female lyric poet from Greece

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Sapphos

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This hero was exiled from Athens

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Themistocles

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Women in the house could leave the house to do this

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Fetch water

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He argued against Philips domination

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Demonstenes

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Philip and Alexander used this type of warfare

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Macedonian phalanx

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The overseers of daily life in Sparta

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Ephnors

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The two most important crops of Greece

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Olives and grapes

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Which Minoan language was deciphered

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Linear B

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What is the world’s earliest printed document

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The phaistos disk

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These two epics provide Greek standard for virtuous behavior

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Homers odyssey and Iliad

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The invasion of these people possibly caused a dark age

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The Dorians

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This man road into Greece and claim to be with the goddess Athena

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Pisistratus

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What is a trireme

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A state of the art ancient ship

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What was the dealian leagues

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An alliance of Greek states designed to keep the Persians in check

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What is the secret Spartan police called

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The cryptaea

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That’s what age did the spartan boys enter the military barracks

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Seven

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At what age for the spartan men marry

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20

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Describe spartan women

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Strong, athletic, had to bear strong children, held high status, ran farms, oversaw helots, could inherit property

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Describe how Spartans viewed trade travel and new ideas

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They looked down on trade and forbid their citizens to travel. They have little use for new ideas and that their lifestyle was best

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Describe the reforms of Solon

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He outlawed debt slavery, opened offices to more citizens, granted citizenship to some foreigners, and gave people more say in decisions

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Who encouraged the Athenians to build a fleet of warships in preparation for battle with the Persians

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Themistocles

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Who sent a much larger force to Greece to crush the Athenians?

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Xerxes

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How did the Athenians use the Delian league

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They used it to create an empire

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Who led Athens during much of it’s golden age

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Pericles

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What reform did Pericles institute which allowed a broader democracy

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He thought all citizens should partake in government, he gave a fixed salary to those who participated in government

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How long did the Peloponnesian war last

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27 years

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What major problem caused the weakening and eventual loss of the Peloponnesian war by Athens

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Sparta was inland and Athens could not attack with the Navy while Spartan armies could attack Athens by just marching north

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What’s were early Greek thinkers driven by

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Curiosity and the belief in reason

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From whom do we learn about Socrates

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Plato

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What was Socrates accused of and what happened to him

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He was accused of corrupting the cities youth and failing to respect the gods. He was sentenced to death

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How did Plano feel about democracy and what was the name of the school he found

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He rejected democracy. His school is called the Academy

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Who is Aristotle and how did he think people should live

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He is Plato’s most famous student. he thought people should pursue a golden mean , a moderate between the extremities

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What is the name and significance of the schools set up by Aristotle

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It is called the lyceum. The first European schools were based largely on the works and ideas of Aristotle

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Defined sophists

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Men of wisdom

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What is the goal of Greek architecture

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To convey sense of perfect balance between harmony and the order of the universe

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Name three major Greek playwrights and a play written by each

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Aeschylus- oresteia
Sophocles- Antigone
Euripides- the Trojan women

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What was Pericles’ master plan during the Peloponnesian war?

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The Athenians would only fight at sea and hide behind city walls and depend on their navy for supplies

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What went wrong with Pericles’ plan

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That’s infested the supply ships and caused plagues to kill one third of the Athenians including himself

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How did the Peloponnesian war end

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The Athenians gave up their defensive strategy and lost control of the seas. Their food supply was cut off and they had to surrender

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What one word sums up Philip

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More!

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What was Philips dream

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A united Greece conquering the Persian empire

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How did Phillip die

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He was assassinated in Macidonia

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Who took over when Philip died

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His son Alexander

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