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| Persian Wars | Featured Battles of Marathon, Salamis, Plataea) 499- 449bc |
| Delian League | Alliance of Greek cities led by Athens |
| Peloponnesian War | War between the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta and the Delian League led by Athens 431-404 BC |
| Peace of Nicias | (50 year peace) A peace treaty signed between sparta and athens |
| Peloponnesian League | A loose confederation of greek city states led by Sparta |
| Pericles | Turned delian league into Athenian empire. Led Greeks to victory at Mycale |
| Alcibiades | he was one of the GREATEST teachers son of cleinias, commander of peloponnesus war, he smashed the genitals of statues at the expedition of sicily |
| Darius I | (The great) Persian King, Known for unsuccessful attack on Greece known for the battle of Marathon |
| Marathon | First battle invasion on Greece by the persian empire |
| Xerxes | 4th & most famous king of Archaemenid dynasty of Persia, known for the battles of Salamis and Thermopolae |
| Leonidas | King of Sparta who famously led 300 soldiers to their death at massive battle against persia |
| Thermopylae | Sparta vs Persia. Fought in a pass. 300 Spartans fight to the death. |
| Salamis | Athens, Spartans vs Persians. Fought at sea. Persians lured into a narrow straight and defeated |
| Artemesium | Naval battle, took place in Thermopylae |
| Platea | Athens, Spartans, vs Persians. Final battle of Greco-Persian War. Fought on land. Persian leader killed with a rock/spear |
| Themistocles | Athenian politician and naval strategist who was the creator of Athenian sea power |
| Miltiades | Athenian general who defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon |
| Philip (II) of Macedon | Father of Alexander the Great, could be very brutal, great general |
| Chaeronea | Infamous fight faught between Philip (II) of Macedon and greek city states |
| Alexander the Great | King of Greek Kingdom Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty, taught by Aristotle, son of Philip of Macedonia, conquered in war of Issus |
| Issus | Alexander the Great's second battle against the Persian army and the first direct engagement with King Darius III |
| Darius III | Was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia faced Alexander |
| Gaugamela | battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire |
| Plato | Greek philosopher and the founder of the Academy in Athens |
| Aeschylus | Known as the father of tragedy (greek tragedian) |
| Sophocles | Highly educated ancient Greek playwrighter (greek tragedian), wrote the play Oedipus the King |
| Euripides | Famous tragedian of classical Athens and the last of three tragedians |
| Herodotus | known for writing detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars. |
| Thucydides | greatest of ancient Greek historians and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, |
| Socrates | classical Greek philosopher, one of the founders of Western Philosophy, taught Plato, he never wrote anything down |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher and scientist considered THE father of western philosophy |
| Aegispotomi | Greek river ramously where the battle Peloponnesian war took place |
