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What is Minoan?
The earliest Greek civilization.
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What is a helot?
A Spartan slave.
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What is the Persian threat?
The threat that united the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC.
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What is Macedonia?
Alexander's home land.
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What is the Hellenistic age?
The period in which Greek culture was spread through the ancient world.
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What is Mycenea?
The leading commercial center of early mainland Greek civilization.
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What is military training?
Spartan way of life centered on this.
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Who is Xerxes?
He is the Persian king who burned Athens.
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Who is Aristotle?
Alexander's tutor.
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What is hellas
What the Greeks called their land.
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What is the Homeric Age?
The Greek "Dark Ages" are sometimes called this because of the man who wrote poems that took place at this time.
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What is the Peloponnesian League?
league formed by Sparta to stop the Athenian ideals of democracy.
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What is the Battle of Marathon?
The first major battle of the Persian Wars, it was a Greek victory.
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Who is Phillip?
Alexander's father.
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What is Hellenic?
Actual Greek culture.
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What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
The two epic poems written by Homer.
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What is the age of 7?
The age Spartan boys were sent away from home to begin training for the military.
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What is the Battle of Thermopylea?
The second major battle of the Persian Wars, it was a defeat for the Greeks, but still served as an inspiration for them to fight on.
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What is four?
How many parts Alexander's empire was divided into once he died.
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What is Hellenistic?
Greek-like culture.
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What is Knossos?
The main city of the earliest known Greek civilization.
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What is the Battle of Thermopylea?
The battle where 300 Spartans fought to the death against a huge army of Persians.
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What is the Battle of Salamis Bay?
The sea battle where the Greeks used their smaller boats to ram and sink a large portion of the Persian fleet.
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What is become king of the world and spread Greek culture?
Alexander's main goals in conquering the world.
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What is Tragedy and Comedy?
The two forms of drama developed by the Greeks.
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