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| Persian Wars | 5th century BCE wars between the Greeks, victors, and the Persians |
| Delian League | Greek city-states union formed to liberate from Persia in 478 BCE |
| Peloponnesian War | Greek war between Delian League & Peloponnesian League |
| Peace of Nicias | Treaty between Athens Greek city-states & Sparta |
| Peloponnesian League | Coalition formed of Greek city-states led by Sparta in 6 century BCE |
| Pericles | Greek statesman & orator; Athenian general in 5th century BCE |
| Alcibiades | Athenian orator, statesman, & general; son of Cleinias, 5 BCE |
| Darius I | Fourth King of Persian Achaemenid Empire; Marathon battle leader |
| Marathon | Athenians (led by Miltiades) defeated the Persian army in 490 B.C. |
| Xerxes | Fifth King of Persian Achaemenid Empire from 486 to 465 BCE |
| Leonidas | Warrior king of Greek city-state Sparta; died at Battle of Thermopylae |
| Thermopylae | Persian empire (Xerxes) defeats Greek city-states (Leonidas) |
| Salamis | Naval battle; Persians (Xerxes) defeat city-states (Themistocles) |
| Artemesium | 3 day naval battles in which Persians win control over Euboea |
| Platea | Last land battle of 2nd Invasion of Greece; Greeks defeat Persians |
| Themistocles | Athenian political and general who led armies in Persian Wars |
| Miltiades | Athenian general who led victory over Persians in Marathon battle |
| Philip (II) of Macedon | King of Macedon kingdom until assassination in 336 B. C |
| Chaeronea | Macedonians (Philip II) defeats Greek city-states (Athens & Thebes) |
| Alexander the Great | King of kingdom of Macedon; son of Philip II |
| Issus | Hellenic League (Alexander T.G) beats Achaemenid Empire(Darius III |
| Darius III | Last king of the Achaemenid Empire from 336 BC to 330 BC |
| Gaugamela | Hellenic League (Alexander The Great) invades Achaemenid Empire |
| Plato | Classical Greece philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens |
| Aeschylus | Ancient Greek tragedian; wrote the trilogy The Oresteia |
| Sophocles | Ancient Greek tragedian who wrote the drama Oedipus the King |
| Euripides | Ancient Greek tragedian who wrote the play Medea |
| Herodotus | Ancient Greek historian; wrote The Histories (Greco-Persian wars) |
| Thucydides | Athenian historian & general; wrote History of Peloponnesian War |
| Socrates | Classical Greek philosopher of 4th century BCE |
| Aristotle | Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist of 4th century BCE |
| Aegispotomai | Small Greek river flowing into Hellespont and Northeast of Sestos |
