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What is on the east side of the Balkan Peninsula

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The Black Sea and the Aegean Sea

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What is on the west of the Balkan Peninsula

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Ionian Sea

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What are two prominent regions of ancient Greece

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Attica and Pelopesus

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What is the earliest civilization within Greece

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Aegean Civilization

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Group of people on the island of Crete that developed the first important European civilization after the Flood

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The Minoans

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How did the Minoans become known to modern historians

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When Sir Arthur Evans uncovered the palace of the legendary King Minos at Knossos in A.D. 1900

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Group of people that inhabited the Greek mainland of Mycenae

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The Mycenaeans

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Who overthrew the Mycenaeans?

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The Dorians

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Many of the Mycenaeans escaped to Asia Minor and Attica where they became known as …….

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Ionians

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Greeks of classical times who made great contributions to Western Civilization

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Hellenes

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Singing poet that had great influence on the Greeks

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Homer

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What are the two famous epic poems written by Homer

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Iliad and Odyssey

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The chief and father of the gods, (Greek religion) that is associated with thunder and lightning

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Zeus

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According to Homer, where did the Greek gods live?

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On Mt. Olympus

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The invincible Greek warrior made up by Homer in the Iliad

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Achilles

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16
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Tribes and villages joined to form the …. or city

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Polis

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17
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What differentiated the heroes and the gods

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The heroes were mortal

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Greek Marketplace, a busy concourse of commerce, conversation, and debate

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agora

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Greek place of physical training and games of skill

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Gymnasium

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Greek outdoor theater

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Amphitheater

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21
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What did the Greeks refer to those who didn’t speak the Greek language

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Barbarians

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22
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Greek event held every fourth year at Olympia in honor of Zeus

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Olympic Games

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What was the first year of the Olympic Games according to the Greek calendar?

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776 B.C.

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What is the period between Olympics called?

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Olympiad

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25
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which countries fought in the Greco-Persian war?

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Greece and Persia

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Persian king that crushed the Ionian revolt and demanded that the mainland Greeks submit to him

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Darius I

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What are the cities that refused to surrender to Darius’s command

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Athens, Eretria, and Sparta

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28
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What year did the Greco-Persian Wars start/end

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490 B.C.- 479 B.C.

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After quickly defeating Eretria, the Persians landed at ……. , about a day’s March northeast of Athens

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Marathon

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30
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What did the Battle of Marathon prove

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It proved that the Persians could be defeated
It brought great prestige to Athens

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Who was determined to conquer Greece ten years after Marathon

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Xerxes I, Darius’s son

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A narrow mountain pass in the central Greece near the Aegean Sea

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Thermopylae

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33
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Who was the Spartan leader during the Battle of Thermopylae

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Leonidas

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34
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Where had the citizens been evacuated when the Persians had arrived at Athens?

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The Island of Salamis

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Greek navy that tricked Xerxes into fighting a naval battle in the narrow strait between the mainland and the island of Salamis

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Themistocles

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36
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What is the first naval battle in history

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The Battle of Salamis

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37
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In which battle were the Persians finally defeated? In which year?

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The Battle of Plataea; 479 B.C.

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38
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What was considered a turning point in world history?

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Xerxes’s defeat to Greece

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39
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Which two Greek city-states led in the war against the Persians

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Sparta and Athens

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40
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“Rule by one”

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Monarchy

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41
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The Greek
monarch was advised by the …… and the ……..

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Council of Elders ; Assembly

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42
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The first people in world history to reject one-man rule

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The Greeks

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43
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Rule by the “best”

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Aristocracy

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44
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“Rule by the few rich”

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Oligarchy

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45
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“Rule by one man who has seized power by rebellion and insurrection”

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Tyranny

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46
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Rule by the many or the common people

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Democracy

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47
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What are the three classes that the spartan society consisted of

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The ruling class
The middle class
The helots (slaves)

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What was the chief accomplishment of Sparta

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The formation of the Peloponnesian League

49
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Who was chosen from he royal family to be “chief” in Athens

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archon

50
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Who was chosen to give the Athenians a code of law?

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Draco

51
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Noble that was elected archon in 594 B.C.

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Solon

52
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Who became the first tyrant of Athens? What year?

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Peisistratus; 560 B.C.

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In 508 B.C. , two decades after Peisistratus’s death, who became the new champion of the common people in Athens

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Cleisthenes

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A

Q

55
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A practice by which a quorum of citizens could vote to banish for 10 years any person believed to be dangerous to the state

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Ostracism

56
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Who is believed to have introduced the practice of ostracism?

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Cleisthenes

57
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Athenian democracy was brought to its fullest measure by the statesman ……

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Pericles

58
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In a modern ……. ………, the citizens elect a few men who represent them in the government

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Representative democracy

59
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Democracy in which citizens made the big decisions of government directly themselves, not indirectly through representatives

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Direct democracy

60
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What is the age of Pericles often referred to as?

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“Golden Age of Greece”

61
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Because Athens expected more trouble from the Persians, they formed the …… …….

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Delian League

62
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Who fought in the Peloponnesian War?

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Athens and Sparta

63
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What are the years for the Peloponnesian War?

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431 B.C. - 404 B.C.

64
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By …. B.C., ….. had lost their naval power and was forced to surrender to ……

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404; Athens; Sparta

65
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Who defeated Sparta in 371 B.C.

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Thebes

66
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Who is the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Odysseus

67
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What did Pericles do?

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He paid people to be in the government

68
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What did the Greeks consider the Macedonians

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Barbarians

69
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Who became king of Macedonia in 359 B.C.

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Phillip II

70
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Athenian orator that urged his fellow Greeks to unite against the Macedonian threat

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Desmothenes

71
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A Greek city-states organized by Phillip

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Hellenic league

72
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Who succeeded the Macedonian throne after Phillip’s death

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His son, Alexander the Great

73
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What year did Alexander cross the Hellespont to begin his conquest of the mighty Persian Empire

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334 B.C.

74
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What did Alexander the Great name 16 of the Greek cities he built?

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Alexandria

75
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What was Alexander the Great’s most lasting contribution to world history

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His spreading of Greek culture

76
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Which battle divided Alexander’s empire among four generals who declared themselves as kings?

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Ipsus

77
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What three ruling dynasties came out of Alexander’s empire? What areas did each dynasty rule?

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The Ptolemis (Egypt)
The Seleucids (Syria)
The Antigonids (Macedonia and Greece)

78
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Who was Alexander the Great’s private tutor

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Aristotle

79
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What period of Greek History took place between 700 B.C. And 338 B.C.

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Hellenistic Age

80
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Who summed up the Greek’s humanistic way of thinking? What was his statement?

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Protagoras; “Man is the measure of all things”

81
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A well-education slave charged with a Greek boy’s manners and morals

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Pedagogue

82
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Greatest Athenian temple dedicated to the goddess of Athens, Athena

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Parthenon

83
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The Greek “Father of History”

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Herodotus

84
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The first great Greek poet who wrote epic poetry

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Homer

85
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Legendary Greek writer who was a freed slave living in the sixth century

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Aesop

86
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A brief story used ti teach a moral

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Fable

87
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Who developed the two greatest Greek tragedies Oedipus Rex and Antigone

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Sophocles

88
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Famous comic dramatist who used his plays to satirize political and cultural life in Athens

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Aristophanes

89
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What was the Greeks’ important contribution to science

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Natural Philosophy

90
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Who discovered important mathematical concepts still used in geometry

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Pythagoras

91
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Who developed a theory that all matter is composed of individual atoms

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Democritus

92
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The Greek “Father of medicine”

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Hippocrates

93
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A high code of ethics still taken by many medical school graduates today. Who made it?

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Hippocratic Oath; Hippocrates

94
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“Lovers of wisdom”

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Philosophers

95
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Early name for philosophers

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Sophists

96
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Those that believe that there are no absolute truth

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Relativists

97
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Ultimate foundational truths

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Absolutes

98
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What was Socrates’ question in approach to philosophy

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“What is the best way to live?”

99
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Student of Socrates that was inspired to write 30 or more worlds of philosophy

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Plato

100
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Work written by Plato attempting to show how man could have order in society and in his soul

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The Republic

101
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Student of Plato; what did he conclude?

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Aristotle; he concluded that the order of the universe must have come from God

102
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What did Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle end up doing because they didn’t have a proper of understanding of God

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They erred and placed man at the center of all things

103
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What is he last remnant of Alexander’s empire in 30 B.C. called?

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Hellenistic Age

104
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Who founded the school of philosophy known as Stoicism?

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Zeno

105
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Who taught that the highest good of man was to live a life of calm pleasure regulated by morality, temperance, serenity, and personal development

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Epicurus

106
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Astronomer that proposed that the earth revolves around the sun

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Aristarchus of Samos

107
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Who systematized the theorems of plane geometry?

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Euclid

108
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Who formulated the basic principles of trigonometry

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Hipparchus

109
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Who made important contributions to mathematics, engineering, physics

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Archimedes

110
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Who calculated the circumference of the earth with accuracy

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Erastosthenes of Cyrene

111
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Who left behind him 17 volumes of geography

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Strabo

112
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Used to write such modern Slavic languages such as Russian, Bulgarian

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Cyrillic alphabet

113
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The writing system of the Western world

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Alphabet

114
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Common Greek

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Koine

115
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Which of Greece’s great philosophers was forced to commit suicide for denying the existence of the Greek gods

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Socrates

116
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T/F the Stoics emphasized worldly pleasure and indulgence

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Epicureans

117
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Who is the famous Greek writer of fables

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Aesop

118
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What type of Greek is the Old Testament written in

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Koine

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