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Ancient Greece

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Anatolian rivals of the Mycenaeans; Troy may have been their proxy during Trojan War
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Strategic strait once dominated by Troy (1,280's BCE), famously crossed by Xerxes and his army in 480 BCE. Later, during the Peloponnesian War, a Spartan naval victory there spelled doom for Athens in 405 BCE.
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Legendary Greek people whose conflict with centaurs was the subject of various "Elgin Marbles" from the Parthenon
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Port of Athens, connected to the city by long walls constructed by Themistocles after the Second Persian War
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Greek term for general assembly, where (adult male) Athenian citizens voted.
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Poetic genre favored by Homer
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"The people" in Ancient Greek (language)
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Greek poet whose works first appeared in writing in c. 740 BCE, signaling a revival of Greek culture
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Spartan-allied Sicilian city-state attacked by Athens in 415
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Homer's epic poem about Trojan War
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Term meaning "Greece"
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Trojan mother whose son was killed by Greeks in Euripides' "The Trojan Women," staged in 416 after the Melian massacre
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Their invasion extinguished Mycenaean civilization
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Sparta's agricultural slaves, also known as Messenians
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Athenian general and historian during Peloponnesian War
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Athenian dramatist whose play "The Trojan Women" may have been intended as a critique of the massacre at Melos
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Spartan island-colony, attacked by Athens in 416
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strait connecting Black Sea to Sea of Marmara; site of modern Turkish city of Istambul
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Strategically situated city, commercial rival of the Mycenaeans, attacked and destroyed by them in 1,280's BCE
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Island-home of Odysseus, Greek hero of Trojan War whose journey home after the war is described in Homer's Odyssey
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405 BCE naval victory which gave Sparta control of Hellespont, allowing the Spartans to starve Athens into submission
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Sea between Greece and Turkey (Anatolia); center of the Greek world
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480 BCE defeat of Persian fleet by Athenian navy
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Narrow coastal passage between Malian gulf and mountains where 300 Spartans under King Leonidas stopped the advance of Xerxes' army for 3 days
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Athenian leader beginning in 594 BCE, who created the general assembly (ekklesia) and abolished debt slavery
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Athenian leader who created territorial districts to choose civil servants
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Greek military formation used to great effect against Persians
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Student of Socrates who tried to save him after his trial by bribing his guards and urging him to escape
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Legislator who created first Athenian law code in 622 BCE
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Priest of Apollo from bk. 1 of Iliad
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Peloponnesian neighbors enslaved by Sparta between 743 and 724 BCE; this region of Greece is now famous for the Kalamata olives grown there.
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Surrogate or stand-in
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Poison drunk by Socrates in 399 after his trial, to carry out the death sentence imposed by Athenian magistrates after his trial
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Decisive battle of first Persian War; Athenians and allies defeat Darius' army 26 miles away from Athens
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Western coastal region of Anatolia colonized by Greeks when Attica became overcrowed, according to Thucydides. Later the Persians took over, prompting these Greek colonies to rebel, and leading to the Persian Wars
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Greek island which gave its name to Athenian-led anti-Persian defense league