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| Minoans | Forerunners of the mainland Greeks who resided on island of Crete |
| Mycenaeans | Bronze Age Greeks |
| Trojan War | Most famous war of the Bronze Age Greeks |
| Heinrich Schliemann | Archaeologist who found the ruins of Troy |
| Dorians | People who ruled Greece during the period in which writing was lost |
| Homer | Poet credited with Iliad and Odyssey |
| Oligarchy | Government ruled by a few powerful people |
| arete | Heroic ideal meaning virtue and excellence |
| Olympic Games | Famous games held every four years beginning in 776 BC |
| aristocracy | A type of government ruled by a small group of noble families |
| Lycurgus | Spartan law giver |
| Pericles | Ruler of Athens during its Golden Age |
| Parthenon | Famous Greek temple honoring Athena |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom and protector of Athens |
| Phidias | Greek sculptor who did statue of Athena for Parthenon |
| Aristophanes | Author of Lysistrata |
| Sophocles | Author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone |
| Thucydides | Author of the Peolponnesian War |
| Herodotus | Father of History |
| Euripides | Author of Medea |
| Aeschylus | Author of The Oresteia |
| Socrates | Philosopher whose questioning of accepted values led to his death |
| Plato | Idealist philosopher who wrote The Republic |
| The Academy | Plato's school |
| Euclid | Mathematician who wrote the Elements |
| Philip of Macedon | Victor at Battle of Chaeronea |
| Aristotle | Philosopher who questioned the nature of the human belief, thought, and knowledge |
| Alexander the Great | Macedonian whose conquests helped to spread Greek culture |
| Lyceum | Aristotle's school |
| Demosthenes | Athenian orator who urged unity to fight the Macedonians |
| Archimedes | Individual who used levers, inclined planes to discover laws that governed motion |
| Hellenistic | Blended culture of Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian |
| Koine | Popular language spoken in Hellenistic culture |
| Alexandria | Foremost center of the Hellenistic culture |
| Aristarchus | Astronomer who proposed a heliocentric theory |
| Ptolemy | Astronomer who proposed a geocentric theory |
| Heliocentric | Sun centered universe |
| Geocentric | Earth centered universe |
| Eratosthenes | Alexandrian who closely calculated the earth's circumference |
| Zeno | Founder of Stoicism |
| Epicurus | Founder of Epicurenism |
| Colossus of Rhodes | Giant statue on island of Rhodes |
| Pharos | Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| Pheidippides | Hero of the first Persian War who ran marathon to Athens |
