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Ancient Greece and Rome
Robert Parlin's Ancient Greece and Rome Test
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History
9th Grade
11/04/2009

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Homer
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an ancient Greek epic poet, the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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Alexander the Great
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Greek who made the biggest empire in the world including persia, Greece, Asia Minor, and a large part of the middle east.
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Socrates
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A greek philosopher who taught Plato. He asked many, many questions about life and the meaning of things.
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Plato
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Socrates's student who lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy and taught Aristotle
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Aristotle
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Taught Alexander the Great while he was taught by Plato. Greek philosopher who wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
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Epicurus
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Attacked superstition and divine intervention. Followed in the steps of Democritus. Very Materialistic character.
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Zeno
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Created Stoicism. (To deflect emotion)
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Herodotus
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"Father of History". First Historian but didn't always use primary sources.
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Archimedes
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Greek Mathematician and Inventor. Made many advances in Physics.
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Pythagorus
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Made the pythagorean theorem.
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Sappho
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Lesbian poet who wrote mainly about romance for women. Born on Lesbos.
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Hippocrates
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Father of Medicine
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Crete
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Where the first Greek civilization was formed. (Minoans). Island below greece.
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Minoan Civilization
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On Crete. First Greek Civilization
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Trojan War
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Between Greeks and Troy. Over Hellen, the most beautiful women in the world.
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Mycenaens
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Fought the Freeks in the Peloponnesian Wars
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