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What is the Parthenon?
Greece's most famous building
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Who are the Medes?
The Persians defeated this group to win their independence
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What is a polis?
The Greek word for a small city-state
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What is Egypt?
Conquered by Alexander without a fight
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What is strong and healthy?
Physically speaking, Spartan women were
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What is a tie?
Juries in Greece had an odd number of participants to avoid
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What are strong and well organized?
Best descriptions of the Persian army
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What is the agora?
Place in a Greek city-state where political meetings, religious gatherings and they bought and sold goods
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What is divided into three kingdom's?
After his death, Alexander's empire was
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What are farmers?
Most of the boys from poor families in Athens became
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What is Greek Mythology?
The Greeks Strongly influenced our language. Many English words and expression come from
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Who is Darius?
This Persian leader wanted to fill his capital city with gold and beautiful artwork to reflect the glory of his empire
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What is the Dark Age?
The period of warfare and disorder in Greece
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What is military commander?
After learning about Alexander's conquests we can infer that enjoyed being a
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What is Athens?
The Peloponnessian War began because this city-state became too powerful
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What are Greek Philosophers?
The first people to try to explain events rather than just believing that they were the work of the gods were
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What are Salamis and Plataea?
Two battles that showed Greece's power and cleverness in defeating Xerxes
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What is an oligarchy?
A government in which only a few people have power
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What is grown even larger?
If Alexander had not died at such an early age his empire would most likely have
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What is the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta became the most powerful city-state as a result of
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What is Western Civilization?
Greek achievements are considered to be important because they strongly shaped
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Who are Darius and Xerxes?
These two Persian leaders attempted to conquer Greece
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What is Greek mythology?
Stories that explained why natural or historical events happened to the Greeks
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What is the Indus River?
Alexander's troops were exhausted and refused to fight anymore when crossed this river
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What is the slaves may have rebelled?
If Sparta's army had become weak
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