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| Athens | a city state in ancient Greece; the capital of modern day Greece |
| agora | a public market and meeting place in an ancient Greek city; the Agora spelled with a capital a, refers to the agora of Athens |
| vendor | a seller of goods |
| slavery | condition of being owned by, and forced to work for, someone else |
| Sparta | a city-state in ancient Greece |
| helots | In ancient Sparta, the term for slaes who were owned by the state |
| Peoloponnesian War | a war fought between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece; almost every other Greek city-state was involved in the war |
| plague | a wide-spread disease |
| blockade | an action taken to isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies |
| assassinate | to murder for political reasons |
| Alexander the Great | king of Macedonia; conqured Persia and Egypt and invaded India |
| Hellenestic | describing Greek histoy or culture after the death of Alexander the Great, including the 3 main kingdoms formed by the breakup of Alexander's empire |
| barbarian | a person who belongs to a group that others consider wild, or uncivilized |
