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| Thucydides | early historian that wrote History of the Peloponessian War without making the events fanciful |
| Herodotus | first historian that wrote History of the Persian Wars and included the input of the Greek gods and goddesses |
| Socrates | a Greek philosopher that believed in an individuals's abilityto reason/think |
| Pierre de Coubertin | a Frenchman that led efforts to bring back the Olympic games |
| Homer | wrote two great epic poems called the Iliad and the Odyssey about the Trojan War |
| Xerxes | the Persian king that sought revenge against Greece and led the last Persian attack against the Greeks |
| Agamemnon | a Mycenaean king that led the Greek invasion in the Trojan War |
| Cleisthenes | a Greek ruler that created an assembly of all males citizens so that more pelple had a role in government |
| Pericles | a Greek ruler that started Greek democracy and led the rebuilding of Athens after the Persians burned the town |
| Solon | a Greek ruler that canceled all land depts of the poor, so they would not be slaves |
| Hippocrates | father of medicine |
