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Abydos

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City of the Hellespont, noted for Xerxes’ bridge

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Amphipolis

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Site of the Battle of Amphipolis where Cleon and Brasidas died in 422 BC

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Athens

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Principal city of Attica, birthplace of democracy, led Greece in Golden Age, founded by Cecrops in 1532 BC

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Aulis

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City in Greece where the Greek forces gathered and departed from for Troy

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Corinth

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Primary trade center on the Isthmus of Corinth

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Crotona

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Greek colony in southern Italy, commercial rival of Sybaris which was eventually destroyed by Crotona

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Cumae (cyme)

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First Greek colony of Italy, site of oracle of Cumaean Sibyl

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Delphi

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Site of Greece’s most famous oracle (Apollo’s)

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Eleusis

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The Seat of the Eleusian mysteries

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Halicarnassus

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Site of the “Mansoleum”

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Ilium (Troy)

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Principal city in Asia Minor during the Mycenaean Age, destroyed by Mycenaean Greeks in the Trojan War

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Knossus

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Main city on Crete during Minoan Age, contained the labyrinth which was designed by Daedalus

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Lacedaemon (Sparta)

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Characterized by harsh militarism, founded in 1490 BC, for 800 years it was without walls

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Marathon

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City of Attica, victory of Greeks over Persians 490 BC; huge burial mound of battle dead

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Megara

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Minor trade center of Isthmus of Corinth, victim of Pericles’ Meagan Decree in 432 BC

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Mycenae

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Primary city of Mycenaean Age, site of “Lion Gate,” Treasury of Atreus,” and Tholos Tomb, ruled at one time in Perseus

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Naucratis

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City located at the mouth of the Nile River

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Olympia

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Site of the ancient Olympic Games, site of Phidias workshop

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Pella

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Capital of Macedonia after Phillip moved from Aegea, birthplace of Alexander the Great

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Phaleron

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Port of Athens until 478 BC

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Piraeus

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Port of Athens after 478 BC, preplanned city by Hippodamus

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Sybaris

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Greek Colony in southern Italy, renouned for its luxury, destroyed by Crotona

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Syracuse

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Most important Greek colony on Sicily, rival of Himera, eventually dominant Sicily

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Tegea

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Site of a temple to Athena, which held the hide of the Caledonian Boar, the boar was killed by Atalanta and Meleager

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Thebes

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Main city of Boeotia, founded by Cadmus in 1313 BC, stigmatized for insolence

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Troezen

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City in Argolis, birthplace of Theseus (slew the minotaur)

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Aegina

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Pericles called it the “eyesore of Piraeus,” home of Achilles, site of the first Greek mint

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Chios

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Birthplace of Homer

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Corcyra

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In 435 BC, Corcyra and Corinth both claim to be mother colony of Epidamqnus which leads to war between them; this incident was one of the factors that led to the Peloponnesian War

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Crete

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Center of Minoan Civilization, large island south of the Aegean Sea

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Delos

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An island of the Cyclades, held treasury of the Delian League (Athenian Empire)

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Melos

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“Venus de Milo” was built here by an unknown artist

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Ithaca

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Home of Odysseus

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Lemnos

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Mythological site of Hephaestus’ forge

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Lesbos

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Origin of many famous poets including Erinna, Sappho, Alcman, Alcaeus

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Salamis

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Site of Battle of Salamis in 480 BC

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Rhodes

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Site of construction of “Colossus of Rhodes”

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Arcadia

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Rustic area in the center of Peloponnese, only area not conquered by the Dorians

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Attica

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Area surrounding the city of Athens

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Boeotia

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Area around the city of Thebes

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Caria

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Area in southern Asia Minor, site of the “Mansoleum”

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Dardania (Troad)

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Area around the city of Troy

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Epirus

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Area containing Dodona (“Land of the Whispering Oaks,” Zeus’s oracle

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Ionia

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Area of Greek colonization on west coast of Asia Minor

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Laconia

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Area around the city of Sparta

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Lydia

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Gyges was from here, he was the first to use coinage

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Macedonia

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Kingdom in northeastern Greece, birthplace of Philip and Alexander

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Messenia

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Conquered by Sparta, citizens forced into slavery and were called Helots

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Phocis

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Area around the city of Delphi

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Thessaly

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Large area south of Macedonia, birthplace of Jason

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Thrace

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Vast area of land on shores of the Aegean and Black Seas, famous gold mines

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Bosporus

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Strait that leads from the Propontus to the Black Sea

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Hellespont

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Strait that leads from the Aegean Sea to the Propontus, modern dat Dardanelles

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Propontus

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Small sea between the Bosporus and the Hellespont, modern day Sea of Marmara

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Saronic Guld

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Gulf near Attica, contained the island of Salamis and Aegina

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Achelous

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“King of Rivers,” ‘largest river in Greece

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Alpheus

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Sacred river in Elis running through Arcadia, waters considered good for leprosy

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Mt. Ida

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A mountain on Crete, birthplace of Zeus

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Mt. Laurium

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Mountain in Attica, location of infamous silver mines

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Mt. Olympus

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Mountain in Thessaly, mythological home of the gods

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Mt. Parnassus

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Mountain near Delphi, sacred to Apollo

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Mt. Athos

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Mountain in Chalcidice, named after the giant Athos, Persians cut a canal through it

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Chalcidice

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Three fingers peninsula that projects into the Thracian Sea

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Isthmus Corinth

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Strip of land that connects mainland Greece to the Peloponnese

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Peloponnese Peninsula

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Large peninsula that is connected to southern mainland Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth

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The Greek’s mainland

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About 300 miles long

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Hellas

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The Greeks’ name for the Greece

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Hellenes

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The Greeks’ term for themselves

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Helladic

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The term that describes Greece before the Dorian Invasion (1100 BC)

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Hellenic

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The term that describes Greece after the Dorian Invasion until the death of Alexander the Great

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The Diocles

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A wooden tramway along which ships were drawn to on rollers over the two miles across the Isthmus of Corinth

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The Isthmus Wall

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Built by Mycenaeans in the 12th Century BC

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Acropolis

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The term that means fortress or fortified place (stronghold)

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