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| Athens | For many centuries, the most powerful of all ancient Greek city-states; capital of present-day Greece |
| Sparta | The largest ancient Greek city-state, located on southern Peloponnesus |
| Mount Olympus | The highest mountain in Greece, where the ancient Greeks believed many of their gods and goddesses lived |
| Acropolis | A hill in ancient Athens that became a religious center and meeting place; site of the Parthenon |
| Parthenon | A temple built to the goddess Athena, built 447 -432 B.C. on the Acropolis in Athens |
| Alexandria | A city in Egypt founded c. 332 B.C. by Alexander the Great |
| Macedonia | An ancient kingdom ruled by Alexander the Great that conquered Greece and the Persian empire in the 300s B.C. |
| Attica | A peninsula in east-central Greece on the Aegean Sea on which Athens was built |
| Peloponnesus | A mountainous peninusla in southern Greece, between the Ionian and Aegean seas |
