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Ancient Greece
Final Test
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History
6th Grade
02/20/2013

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Aristotle
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Teacher of Alexander the Great

 

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Homer
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Blind Poet/Writer of Iliad and Osessey/ about gods as glorified humans
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Plato
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Philosopher-

Wrote: The Dialogues

 

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Darius
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Persian King-

Crushed ionian revolt/ tried to invade mainland Greece for the first time.

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Socrates
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Greek Philosopher- "Know Thyself"
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Pericles
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Great Leader of Athens died during plague

 

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Solon
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Aristocrat introduced democracy to Athens

 

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Antipater

 

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Rules Macedonia after death of Alexander the Great

 

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Ptolemy

 

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Ruled Macedonia after death of Alexander the Great
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Cyrus the Great
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Persial Emperor conquered Ionia in 546 BC
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Phillip II
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Father of Alexander the Great- Conquered almost all of Greece before he was assassinated
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Xerxes
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Persian King launched 2nd Invasion of mainland Greece i order to expan empire and avenge his father.
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Zeus
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King of the Gods
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Hippocrates
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Father of Medicine
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Poseiden
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god of the Sea
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Hades
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god of the underworld/death
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Athena
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goddess of Wisdom
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Aphrodite
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goddess of love
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Pythagoras
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came up with a theorem about triangles
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Archimedes
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Perfected the lever and Pulley
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Helen
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Known as the woman whose "face launched a thousand ships"
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Herodotus
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Father of History
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Eratosthenes
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First to draw latitude and longitude lines
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Apollo
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god of the sun
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Aristocracy
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Rule by a few
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Democracy
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Rule by many or the common people
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Philosopher
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lover of wisdom
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Monarchy
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Ruler by one
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Oligarchy
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Rule by the "best"
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Polis
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name of Greek city-state
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Tyranny
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bad form of one-man rule that arises when one man seizes power by appealing to the people
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Phalanx
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foot soldiers that charge the enemy as one group
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Barbarian
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what the Greeks viewed all non-Greek people
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Javan
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Japheth's son whom the Greeks descended from
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Persepolis
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chief city of Persian Empire conquered by Alexander the Great in 330 BC
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Minoans
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Build earliest civilization in the vicinity of Greece
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Helots
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People of Sparta who did not belong to the ruling class
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Battle of Salamis
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Place where small Greek navy defeated the Persian fleet.
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Battle of Thermopylae
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Place where the Spartans held off the Persian invasions.
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Battle of Marathon
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Place where the greatly outnumbered Athenians surprised the Persians by defeating them.
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Crete
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Island where the earliest civilization of Greece was built.
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Dorians
Definition
invaders from the north of Greece who helped bring about a dark age in Greece in approximately 1200 BC
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Mount Olympus
Definition
home of the gods
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