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Chapter 4
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History
10th Grade
09/20/2012

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Zoroastrianism
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system of religion based on concept of struggle between good and evil
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Polis
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A city state in ancient Greece
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Hoplite
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citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek city-states
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Tyrant
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someone who illegally seized control of a polis
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Democracy
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A system of government witch directly allows the people to choose there leaders
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Sacrifice
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an offering usually to a deity of some sort
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Herodotus
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an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 5th century
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Pericles
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general and statesman during the period between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars
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Persian Wars
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a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and states of the Greece
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Trireme
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Greek or Roman warship having three levels of oars on each side
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Socrates
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Philosopher created with the creation of modern philosophy
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Peloponnesian War
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war fought by Athens against Sparta and its allies
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Alexander
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a king of Macedon by the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world
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Hellenistic Age
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The era of history is the period which followed the conquests of Alexander the Great
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Ptolemies
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royal family which ruled Egypt for 275 years
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Alesandria
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A city in Italy
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