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Chapter 10 Vocab Flashcards

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Knossos

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A place where very nice palaces and structures were built

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Homer/ Iliad and odyssey

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An unknown person who wrote the two great greek epics

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Minoans

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A society that existed between 2000 and 1700 B.C.E. That fell due to many natural disasters

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Myceneans

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A society that traded with the Minoans

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Linear A and b

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Scripts written to record economic and social matters

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Trojan war

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A war that arose between the Mycenaeans and the Trojans

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Polis/poleis

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The equivalent of a Mesopotamian city state

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Sparta

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An area that was fertile and had a good economy in Peloponnesus

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Helots

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Servants of the spartan society

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Peloponnesus

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A region controlled by the Mycenaean empire

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Athens

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A city in which the government was established to relive political and social strain

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Solon

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An aristocrat who solved social class conflicts in Attica

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Pericles

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A leader who established many jobs for people and a large government

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Greek colonies

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Areas around the Mediterranean that Greeks were located in and ruled by Greece

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Persian wars

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Wars between Greece and Persia

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Battle of salamis

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A war between the straits of the mainland of Greece and Salamis

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Delian league

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A group of poleis formed to create protection from Persian attacks

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Peloponnesian war

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A war between the Greek Poleis

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Thucydides

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A reporter who stated that Athens had taken women and children prisoner and had killed most of the males

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Phillip 2 of Macedon

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A king who modified the army of Macedon

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Alexander the Great

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A ruler who took over Persia

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Antigonid Empire

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An empire that made deals with the Poleis in Greece

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Ptolemaic Empire

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The wealthiest empire of Egypt

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Seleucid Empire

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The empire where greek influence reached its greatest extent

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Hellenistic Era

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The age of Alexander and his successors

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Alexandria (Egypt)

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The most important harbor city in Egypt

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Bactria

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A city that was in constant communication with Greece

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Olympic Games

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Events that occurred every four years in which athletes from each city would compete

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Sappho

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A Greek woman poet

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Thales

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Ionian scientist who predicted an eclipse of the sun

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Democritus

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Greek theorist who believed that everything was made up of tiny particles called atoms

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Pythagoras

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An Ionian mathematician created a systematic approach to math

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Hippocrates

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Father of medicine an Athenian

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Socrates

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A philosopher who centered his ideas on human affairs

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Plato

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A philosopher who believed that parents actions affect their children

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Aristotle

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A philosopher who believed that you could rely on your senses to find evidence

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Zeus

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Head god

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Dionysus

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God of wine

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Aeschylus

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A tragedian who explored the limitation of human actions

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Sophocles

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A Greek tragedian . Who discovered the limits of human actions

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Euripides

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Dramatist that wrote about Dionysus

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Aristophanes

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A comedic dramatist that addressed human striving

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Skeptics

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People who doubted that there was a possibility of certain knowledge

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Stoics

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People who classified all human beings as part of a family

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Epicureans

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People who believe pleasure to be the most important thing

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