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| Persian Wars | Conflict between Greece and Persia in the 5th Century BCE |
| Delian League | alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens |
| Peloponnesian War | Fought by Delian League against Peloponnesian League |
| Peace of Nicias | Treaty that marked the end of the Archidamian War |
| Peloponnesian League | Loose confederation of Greek city-states. Lead by Sparta |
| Pericles | Greek statesman, orator, and general. Golden Age of Athens |
| Alcibiades | Fell from prominence after Peloponnesian War |
| Darius I | Apart of the first Persian invasion of Greece and lost to Athenians at the battle of Marathon |
| Marathon | Where the Athenian army defeated the Persians |
| Marathon | The naval battle of Salamis fought between an alliance of Greek city states under this king |
| Leonidas | King of Sparta from 490 BC until his death at Thermopylae |
| Thermopylae | Persians defeated Spartans; battle in central Greece |
| Salamis | Greek fleet defeated much larger naval forces |
| Artemesium | series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece |
| Platea | final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece |
| Themistocles | Athenian military commander and one of the main architects of the Athenian Empire |
| Miltiades | led Athenians to victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathonc |
| Philip (II) of Macedon | Led a military expedition against the Scythians; Had a son, Alaxender IV |
| Chaeronea | battle in Boeotia. Philip II of Macedonia defeated a coalition of Greek city- states |
| Alexander the Great | Defeated Darius III Codomannus. Conquered the Achaemenid Empire |
| Issus | Battle between the Hellienic League Len by Alexander the Great and the Archaemenid Empire |
| Darius III | Was defeated at the battle of Gaugamela by Alexander the Great |
| Gaugamela | Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire |
| Plato | known for his Dialogues and for founding his Academy north of Athens |
| Aeschylus | ancient Greek tragedian. described as the father of tragedy |
| Sophocles | best-known drama is Oedipus the King |
| Euripides | Most famous tragedies are Medea, The Bacchae, Hippolytus, Alcestis and The Trojan Women |
| Herodotus | known for having written the book The Histories |
| Thucydides | Athenian historian and general |
| Socrates | classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher and scientist |
| Aegispotomai | last major battle of the Peloponnesian War |
| Zeus | Father of all the gods, Lives on Mount Olympus, God of the sky and Thunder. |
| Hera | The queen of heaven, Married to Zues, Responsible for the seasons and the weather. |
| Poseidon | God of the sea, Earthquake and Horses, Brother to Zues and Hades. |
| Hades | God of the underworld, Older brother to Zues and Poseidon. |
| Demeter | Goddes of harvest, Life and death cycle, Goddess of sacred law. |
| Hestia | Virgin goddess of the hearth, Architecture, Family, The home. |
| Ares | Greek god of war, One of the twelve Olympians. |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilazation |
| Hephaestus | God of fire, Son of Zues, Married to Aphrodite |
| Apollo | god of the sun, light, knowledge, music, art, poetry, oracles, medicine, archery, and prophecy |
| Artemis | virgin huntress, goddess of wildlife and patroness of hunters |
| Hermes | son of Zeus and Maia, od of shepherds, land travel, and literature |
| Dionysus | son of Zeus, only god with a mortal parent, last god to enter Olympus |
| Aphrodite | goddess of fertility, love, and beauty, married to Hephaestus |
