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| 11060700997 | Herodotus | First great Greek historian. | 0 | |
| 11060700999 | Homer | A Greek poet. | 1 | |
| 11060701000 | Iliad and Odyssey | An epic poem composed by Homer. | 2 | |
| 11060701002 | Plato | Student of Socrates, wrote The Republic about the perfectly governed society. | 3 | |
| 11060701004 | Aristotle | One of Plato's students, who became a famous Athenian philosopher. | 4 | |
| 11060701010 | Euripides and Sophocles | A Greek playwright. | 5 | |
| 11060701012 | Parthenon | A great temple in Athens. | 6 | |
| 11060701015 | Socrates | An influential Greek thinker. | 7 | |
| 11060701016 | Socratic Method | Continually asking questions to systematically clarify another person's ideas and to identify the core of them. | 8 | |
| 11060701017 | Academy | School opened by Plato. | 9 | |
| 11060701019 | Logic | The science of the formal principles of reasoning. | 10 | |
| 11060701020 | Empiricism | Trusting what one learned from observation and evidence of the senses. | 11 | |
| 11060701021 | Syncretic | Combining ideas from diffferent sources. | 12 | |
| 11060701022 | Zoroastrianism | A Persian religion based on the belief of one god. | 13 | |
| 11060701025 | Cyrus the Great | King of Persia and founder of the Persian empire.(circa 600-529 BC) | 14 | |
| 11060701028 | Darius I | Persian emperor who organized and expanded the empire. | 15 | |
| 11060701029 | Xerxes | Son of Darius, who took the throne, invaded Greece, and was eventually defeated. | 16 | |
| 11060701031 | Philip II | Resolved to conquer and unite the Greek city-states and then conquer Asia Minor. | 17 | |
| 11060701032 | Alexander the Great | King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia. | 18 | |
| 11060701033 | Solon | A reform-minded aristocrat who lived in the sixth century B.C.E., became known as a wise ruler who improved life in Athens. | 19 | |
| 11060701034 | Pericles | Perhaps the most famous name of all in the Greek government, whose period of rule in Athens is sometimes called the Golden Age. | 20 | |
| 11060701036 | Polis | Greek city-states. | 21 | |
| 11060701037 | Monarchies | A king ruled the state. | 22 | |
| 11060701038 | Aristocracy | Nobles ruled. | 23 | |
| 11060701039 | Oligarchy | A few landowners and merchants ruled. | 24 | |
| 11060701040 | Tyrants | Leaders who seized power with the people's support. | 25 | |
| 11060701041 | Democracy | All citizens participated. | 26 | |
| 11060701042 | Direct Democracy | A government in which all citizens could vote directly on laws and other issued in a large assembly. | 27 | |
| 11060701043 | Representative Democracy | Citizens elect leaders to represent them and give those leaders powers to make laws and govern. | 28 | |
| 11060701044 | Crete | A Greek island in the Aegean Sea. | 29 | |
| 11060701045 | Knossos | For a while, the wealthiest city on the Aegean Sea. | 30 | |
| 11060701046 | Minoan Civilization | An advanced civilization that developed on the island of Crete around 2500 B.C.E. | 31 | |
| 11060701047 | Mycenae | A city on the mainland of Greece. | 32 | |
| 11060701050 | Persian Wars | Wars between Greece and the Persian Empire. | 33 | |
| 11060701051 | Marathon | City in mainland Greece. | 34 | |
| 11060701052 | Battle of Thermopylae | Battle during which 300 Spartans fought thousands of Persian soldiers in a narrow mountain pass. Persians won. | 35 | |
| 11060701054 | Persians | Conquered most of the lands from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India. | 36 | |
| 11060701059 | Athens | Powerful Greek polis. Remembered for its political and intellectual achievements. | 37 | |
| 11060701060 | Sparta | Powerful Greek polis. Remembered for creating a military society. | 38 | |
| 11060701061 | Alexandria | City in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization. | 39 | |
| 11060701062 | Hellenistic Period | 323-31 B.C.E. | 40 | |
| 11060701063 | Hoplites | Infantry members. | 41 | |
| 11060701065 | Helots | Slaves. | 42 | |
| 11060701066 | Satraps | A ruler of a province who was responsible to the emperor, not to local leaders. | 43 | |
| 11060701067 | Aristocrats | Rich landowners. | 44 | |
| 11060701068 | Merchants | People who buy and sell goods. | 45 | |
| 11060701071 | Common Currency | A form of money that was accepted across the Persian Empire; made trade simpler. | 46 | |
| 11060701072 | Royal Road | Spanned some 1,500 miles across the Persian Empire, was the most famous of the network of roads built to encourage trade. | 47 |
