| A | B |
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| Minoans | Island civilization on Crete. Great sailors. |
| triremes | Mediterranean warships, oars, sails and a battering ram. |
| bull leaping | Minoan religious practice of somersaulting over bulls. |
| labyrinth | A giant, complex maze. Also where you find the Minotaur. |
| Aegean Sea | Theseus' father, King Aegeus leaped into this thinking his son was dead. |
| Myceneans | Early people in Greece that fought the war against Troy to recover Helen. |
| Helen | "The face that launched a thousand ships." |
| Achilles | Invincible warrior, dipped in the River Styx. All except his heel. |
| Athens | Great Greek city-state where we have the birth of democracy. |
| dictatorship | Rule by one with complete power. |
| Draco | Athenian tyrant whose laws were so terrible that one was "Death for an apple." |
| democracy | Rule by the people. |
| tyrants | Rulers who follow no law. |
| Solon | Athenian lawgiver. Wrote Athenian constitution. |
| constitution | Set of laws and principles a people agree to live by. |
| Sparta | City-state which had the greatest warriors in the ancient world. |
| helots | Spartan slaves. Outnumber the Spartans 20 to 1. |
| Olympic Games | Great festival held every four years in honor of Zeus in Olympia. |
| pentathlon | Five events which determined the greatest athlete in all of Greece. |
| Socrates | Put to death for his dangerous ideas and making young people think. |
| Plato | Pupil of Socrates. Wrote book "Republic" warning that democracy was dangerous. |
| demagogues | Rulers who come to power by powerful emotions not through reason. |
| Aristotle | Pupil Plato. Classified plants and animals. Completed the scientific method. |
| Archimedes | Discovered water density in the tub - Eureka! Baffled the Romans with his weapons of war. |
| phalanx | Military formation. 16 wide and 16 deep. |
| Homer | Blind poet who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. |
| Hector | Greatest hero of Troy. |
| Alexander the Great | Conquered the Persian Empire. Never lost a battle. Died of fever but spread Greek culture. |
| Zeus | King of the gods. |
| Poseidon | God of the oceans and seas. |
| Hades | Ruler of the land of the dead. |
