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Leader of the colonists

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Oecist

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History begins

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776 with first Olympics

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Mother city

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Metropolis

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First colony

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Cumae

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Largest and most important city

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Syracuse founded by Corinth

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Spartan’s only colony

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Taras (tarentum)

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Who made Spartan constitution

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Lycurgus in 885

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Became helots for Sparta

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Messenia

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Legendary Messenian hero

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Aristodemus

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Conon

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Athenian commander left for Persia.

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Pisistratus

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Athen’s first tyrant

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Hipparchus

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Assassinated by Harmodius and Aristogiton. Other Hipparchus first exiled

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Cleomenes

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Spartan king invaded Athens

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Hippias

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Forced to exile in Persia after a spartan invasion

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Cimon

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Ostracized Athenian leader, booted Pausanian

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Pericles

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Issued pay for jury service, elected strategos 15 years in a row

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Xenophon

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Led the march of Ten Thousand

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Alcibiades

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Athenian who beat Spartans

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Cleon

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Died with Brasidas by Sparta at Amphipolis

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Agariste

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Daughter of Cleisthenes or mother of Pericles

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Artemisia

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Carian queen advised against straits of Salamis

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Solon

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Count no man happy until he is dead

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Draco

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Laid out Athen’s law code

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Themistocles

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Ostracized Megacles, Xanthippus, Aristides. Trust in the wooden wall.

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Parmenion

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Executed because his son conspired

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Cleisthenes

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Brought Sicyon to greatest power and prosperity

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Miltades

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Commander the Nike battle

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Pheidon

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Introduced system of weights and measures to Argos

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Theagenes

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Assisted Cylon to seize Athens

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Cypselus

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Tyrant named for chest

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Xerxes

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Followed Darius I

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Darius I

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Sire, remember the Athenians

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Ephialtes

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Was because Areopagus was deprived of power

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Bucephalus

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Alexander’s horse

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Mardonius

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Spartan General Thermopylae

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Cylon

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Ended debt slavery in Athens

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Harmodius

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Restored to leadership in Athens by Darius

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Pausanius

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Spartan regent killed Mardonius

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Lysander

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Won battle of Notion causing Alcibiades to loose command in the Peloponnesian war

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Darius III

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Defeated by Alexander at Issus

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Alexander the Great

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Master of Greece after Chaeronea

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