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| Alexander the Great | ancient Macedonian who was king of Greece and conqured Egypt, Persia, Mesopotamia, and India (most of the known world around 334 B.C.) |
| Archimedes | ancient Greek inventor and mathematician who invented Archimedes' Screw |
| Aristocrats | wealthy property owners in ancient Greece |
| Aristotle | ancinet Greek philosopher; teacher of Alexander the Greate |
| Athens | ancient Greek city-state |
| city-state | an ancient Greek region that has its own government and citizenry |
| Delian League | ancient Athens and her allies |
| Euclid | ancient Greek mathematician who developed a branch of geometry |
| freeman | male citizen of ancient Athens |
| fresco | a type of painting in which a picture is painted onto a plaster wall |
| helots | ancient Spartan slaves |
| Hellenistic Age | ancient Greek doctor who believed that disease had natural causes that could be studied |
| immortal | to live forever |
| Minoan civilization | early Greek civilization located on the island of Crete |
| Mycenae | early Greek civilzation located in Peloponnesus |
| oligarchy | type of government where only a few people rule the many |
| Peloponnesus League | ancient Sparta and her allies |
| Peloponnesian War | ancient conflict between Athens and Sparta |
| polytheism | belief in more than on god |
| Plato | ancient Greek philospher: student of Socrates |
| Pythagoras | ancient Greek mathematician |
| Socrates | ancient Greek philospher who developed the Socratic method |
| Sparta | ancient Greek city-state |
| thetes | ancient Athenian craftsman or laborer |
| Thucydides | ancient general and historian who fought in and wrote about the Peloponnesian War |
| Trojan War | legendary battle between the ancient Greeks and the people of Troy in the 12th or 13th century B.C. |
| Peninsula | land surrounded by water on three sides |
| Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Sea | the three large bodies of water the surround the peninsula of Greece |
| Zeus | king of the gods, rules the thunder, lightning, and rain |
| Hera | wife of zeus, goddess of marriage |
| Poseiden | God of the seas |
| Demeter | Goddess of agriculture |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom |
| Hestia | Goddess of home |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of beauty and love |
| Apollo | God of light and truth |
| Ares | God of war |
| Artemis | Goddess of hunters and animals |
| Hephaestus | God of fire and vocanoes |
| Hermes | messenger of the gods |
