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Lesson 31: Timeline and Drill Questions Flashcards

1
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279 B.C.

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Pyrrhus defeats Romans at Asculum

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2
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King from Epirus who wanted to be as great as Alexander.

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Pyrrhus

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3
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Greek mathematician who was killed when Syracuse fell to the Romans

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Archimedes

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4
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Victory won with unacceptable losses.

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pyrrhic victory

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5
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The southern part of Italy was called this.

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Magna Graecia

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6
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This colony of Tyre became the great rival of Rome.

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Carthage

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7
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Great city of learning and trade founded by Alexander.

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Alexandria, Egypt

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8
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This city had the greatest library in the ancient world.

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Alexandria

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9
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Alexander’s general whose family became the pharaohs of Egypt

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Ptolemy

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10
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He encouraged Jews to come to Alexandria and had the Bible translated into Greek.

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Ptolemy Philadelphus

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11
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The Greek Translation of the Bible, translated by 70 scholars in 70 days.

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Septuagint

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12
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Dynasty of Greek ruler sin Egypt.

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Ptolemy

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13
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Last of the Ptolemy line.

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Cleopatra

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14
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Teh country that invented the alphabet and was great city of commerce.

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Phoenicia

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15
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The canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

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Suez Canal

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16
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Phoenicia and Carthage practiced this religion.

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Baal worship

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17
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He was a cynic who ridiculed the follies of man.

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Diogenes

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18
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Philosophy that counsels man to seek pleasure (peace of mind) in life.

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Epicureanism

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19
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Famous Greek philosopher called the Man of Wisdom.

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Aristotle

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20
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Aristotle’s most famous pupil.

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Alexander

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21
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He gave lectures from a porch, from which his philosophy took its name.

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Zeno

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22
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Philosophy that counsels man to endure life without emotion or feeling.

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Stoicism

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23
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336 B.C.

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death of Philip

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24
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323 B.C.

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death of Alexander

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25
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He was a stutterer who became the greatest orator of Athens.

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Demosthenes

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26
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Athenian orator who practiced speaking with stones in his mouth.

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Demosthenes

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27
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He copied the famous speeches in Thucydides eight times.

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Demosthenes

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28
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A bitter denunciation of a man or party.

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Philippic

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29
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He urged the Athenians to fight Macedonia the way their forefathers had fought against the Persians.

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Demosthenes

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30
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He could recite the “Illiad” from beginning to end.

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Alexander

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31
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King of Persia defeated by Alexander.

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Darius III

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32
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He cried at the age of 30 because he had no new worlds to conquer.

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Alexander

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33
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The name of Alexander’s horse.

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Bucephalus

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34
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He cut the Gordian knot.

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Alexander

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35
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Alexander destroyed this city, pulling every building but one to the ground.

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Thebes

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36
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Father of Alexander who conquered Greece.

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Philip of Macedonia

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37
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Greek military formation that made the Greeks superior fighters.

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phalanx

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38
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371 B.C.

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battle of Leuctra

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39
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362 B.C.

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battle of Mantinea

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40
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Two leaders who liberated Thebes from Sparta

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Epaminondas and Pelopidas

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41
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401 B.C.

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battle of Cunaxa

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42
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399 B.C.

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trial and death of Socrates

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43
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Three Persian leaders who fought with the Greeks and are found in the Bible.

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Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus

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44
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Name of book detailing the March of the 10,000.

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Anabasis

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45
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Persian king during the March of the 10,000.

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Artaxerxes

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46
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Student of Socrates who led the 10,000 out of Persia.

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Xenophon

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47
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Persian general who attempted seizure of his brother’s throne.

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Cyrus

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48
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He drank hemlock cheerfully.

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Socrates

49
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The love of wisdom.

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philosphy

50
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The ugliest person in all of Greece.

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Socrates

51
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Greek philosopher who recorded the wisdom of Socrates.

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Plato

52
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Socrates’ question-and-answer method of teaching.

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Socratic Method

53
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Plato’s open-air school at Athens.

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the Academy

54
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431-404 B.C.

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Peloponnesian War

55
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430 B.C.

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plague at Athens

56
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Spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian war who captured Athens.

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Lysander

57
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He pulled down the Long Walls to the sound of music.

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Lysander

58
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Thirty men who were appointed by the Spartans to govern Athens.

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Thirty Tyrants

59
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Naval commander during the Peloponnesian War who was an Athenian fop.

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Alcibiades

60
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How the Greeks dated time.

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Olympic Games

61
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The Olympic Games were held here.

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Elis

62
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443-429 B.C.

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Pericles dominates Athenian politics

63
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Long war that destroyed the Athenian Empire.

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Peloponnesian War

64
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He found Athens a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

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Pericles

65
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He wrote a history of the Persian Wars and is called the Father of History.

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Herodotus

66
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Greek historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War.

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Thucydides

67
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The greatest statesman in the history of Greece.

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Pericles

68
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He had the Parthenon built while he was leader of Athens.

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Pericles

69
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Athens and Thebes were on this part of Greece.

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Attica

70
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The name of the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

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Parthenon

71
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The sculptor who put a likeness of himself on the shield of Athena.

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Phidias

72
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468 B.C.

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Cimon defeats Persians

73
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He began the Long Walls of Athens and defeated the Persians in Asia Minor.

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Cimon

74
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The son of Miltiades who hung his bridle in the temple of Athena.

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Cimon

75
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The port city of Athens.

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Piraeus

76
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Four mile long walls connecting Athens to the sea.

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Long Walls

77
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The two legs of Greece.

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Athens and Sparta

78
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Two Greek dramatists at the time of Cimon.

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Aeschylus and Sophocles

79
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Greek comic playwright.

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Aristophanes

80
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479 B.C.

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battle of Plataea

81
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This rival of Themistocles was banished because he was just.

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Aristides

82
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Last land battle of the Persian Wars.

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Plataea

83
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Word that means “to banish” and “earthenware tablet.”

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ostracism

84
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Persian general during the Persian Wars.

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Mardonius

85
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Spartan general who defeated Persians at Plataea

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Pausanias

86
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Last sea battle of the Persian Wars.

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Mycale

87
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He defeated the Persians at Salamis but later went to their side.

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Themistocles

88
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The wooden walls of Athens.

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war ships

89
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480 B.C.

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battles of Thermopylae, Salamis

90
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The hero of Thermopylae.

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Leonidas

91
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Elite Spartan military force.

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Spartan 300

92
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He ordered his soldiers to scourge the water with 300 lashes.

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Xerxes

93
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The narrow channel of water separating Europe from Asia.

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Hellespont

94
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490 B.C.

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battle of Marathon

95
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King of Persia who initiated the Persian Wars.

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Darius

96
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The hero of Marathon.

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Miltiades

97
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He ran a marathon to announce the Athenian victory over the Persians

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Phidippides

98
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560 B.C.

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coup of Pisistratus

99
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527 B.C.

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death of Pisistratus

100
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Rule by magistrates or councils.

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republic

101
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Tyrant of Athens who ordered the poems of Homer to be written down.

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Pisistratus

102
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The Acropolis was in this city.

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Athens

103
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The sacred tree that grew on the Acropolis

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olive tree

104
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The citadel of Athens.

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Acropolis

105
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The only state in Greece that never became a republic.

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Sparta

106
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624 B.C.

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Draco’s code

107
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594 B.C.

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Solon’s reforms

108
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It was said that this Athenian’s laws were written in blood.

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Draco

109
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The great lawgiver of Athens that made it a government of all the people.

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Solon

110
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Rule by the many.

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democracy

111
Q

Rich king of Lydia.

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Croesus

112
Q

776 B.C.

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first Olympic games

113
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650 B.C.

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Lycurgus

114
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He ordered the money of Sparta to be made of iron.

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Lycurgus

115
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His reforms made Sparta the greatest military state in Greece.

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Lycurgus

116
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Rule by the few.

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oligarchy

117
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The slaves of the Spartans.

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Helots

118
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The part of Greece that is shaped like a hand

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Peloponnesus

119
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1200 B.C.

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Trojan War

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