chapter 9 vocab Flashcards
1
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Cyrus the great
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he had his own successful army.
2
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calvary
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a unit of soldiers who ride horses
3
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Darius l
A
killed his rivals for power
4
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Persian Wars
A
this series of wars between Persia and Greece
5
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Xerxes l
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he tried to conquer Greece
6
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alliance
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an agreement to work together
7
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Peloponnesian War
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the war between Athens and SPARTA
8
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Philip ll
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the king of Macedonia
9
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phalanx
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was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
10
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Alexander the great
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he made the biggest conquers in history
11
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Hellenistic
A
Greek like
12
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Socrates
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he believed that people should never stop looking for knowledge
13
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Plato
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was a student of Socrates
14
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Aristotle
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the greatest greek thinker
15
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reason
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clear and ordered thinking
16
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Euclid
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considered the greatest mathematicians
17
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Hippocrates
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he wanted to figure out what caused diseases
