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| Shrine | areas dedicated to the honor of gods and goddesses |
| fresco | colorful water color paintings done on wet plaster |
| strait | narrow water passage |
| Minoans | an early civilization on the island of Crete that reached its height between 1750 and 1500 B.C. |
| Knossos | the location of a Minoan palace |
| Mycenaean | war like people who moved into the Greek mainland and overran Crete in 1400 B.C. |
| Iliad | an epic poem about the Trojan War |
| Trojan War | thought to be a legend but perhaps was a real trade war fought between Troy and the Mycenaeans |
| Homer | blind poet who is attributed with writing two great epic poems: Iliad and Odyssey |
| Odyssey | an epic poem that tells the story of Odysseus and his travels home after the Trojan War |
| Dorians | group of people who invaded and took over the Mycenaean civilization |
| Heinrich Schliemann | German business man/archaeologist who discovered what he thought were the remains of the ancient city of Troy |
