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| 5019388309 | Cyrus the Great | established great persian empire by 550 bce; successor state to mesopotamian empires | 0 | |
| 5019388310 | Solon | canceled land mortgages, freed people enslaved for debt, allowed male citizens to serve on juries, granted commoners right to vote in assembly | 1 | |
| 5019388311 | olympic games | one of the pan-hellenic rituals observed by all greek city-states, involved athletic competitions and ritual celebrations | 2 | |
| 5019388312 | cleisthenes | expanded democracy by extending citizenship; began practice of ostracism(banishment of those potentially dangerous) | 3 | |
| 5019388313 | peloponnesian war | war between sparta and athens | 4 | |
| 5019388314 | alexander the great | successor of philip ii; successfully conquered persian empire prior to his death; attempted to combine greek and persian cultures | 5 | |
| 5019388315 | antigonids | one of the regional dynasties that followed the death of alex the great; founded in macedonia and greecd | 6 | |
| 5019388316 | sophocles | greek writer of tragedies; author of oedipus rex | 7 | |
| 5019388317 | ionic | distinct style of hellenistic architecture; more ornate than doric but less than corinthian | 8 | |
| 5019388318 | zoroastrianism | monotheistic religion of the persian empire; good went to heaven and bad went to hell | 9 | |
| 5019388319 | illiad and odyssey | greek epic poems attributed to homer but possibly the work of many authors, defined gods and human nature that shaped greek myths | 10 | |
| 5019388320 | socrates | athenian philosopher of later 5th century bce; tutor of plato; urged rational reflection of moral decisions; condemned to death for corrupting minds of athenian young | 11 | |
| 5019388321 | oracle of delphi | person representing the god apollo, allegedly received cryptic messages from the god that had predictive value if the seeker could correctly interpret the communication | 12 | |
| 5019388322 | pericles | athenian political leader during 5th century bce, guided development of athenian empire, died during early stages of peloponnesian wars | 13 | |
| 5019388323 | macedonia | kingdom located in northern greece, originally loosely organized under kings, became centralized under philip ii, served as basis for unification of greece and later macedonian empire | 14 | |
| 5019388324 | ptolemies | one of the regional dynasties that followed the death of alexander the great; founded in egypt; flourished 305 to 30 bce | 15 | |
| 5019388325 | stoics | hellenistic group of philosophers; emphasized inner moral independence cultivated by strict discipline of the body and personal bravery | 16 | |
| 5019388326 | aristophanes | greek writer of comedies; author of "The Frogs" | 17 | |
| 5019388327 | corinthian | disntinct style of hellenistic architecture; the most ornate of the three | 18 | |
| 5019388328 | hellenism | culture derived from the greek civilization that flourished between 800 and 400 bce | 19 | |
| 5019388329 | city-state | regional government centered in a major city | 20 | |
| 5019388330 | peisistratos | tyrant of ancient athens that helped make the city's preeminence possible | 21 | |
| 5019388331 | persian wars | wars between the persian empire and greece; persians wanted to conquer greece but greece said no | 22 | |
| 5019388332 | delian league | alliance formed by athens after the persian wars; cities contributed to unified treasury on island of delos to support alliance fleet; later taken over by athens and became athenian empire | 23 | |
| 5019388333 | philip ii | ruled macendon from 359 to 336 bce; founder of centralized kingdom; later conquered rest of greece, which was subjected to macedonian authority | 24 | |
| 5019388334 | seleucids | one of the regional dynasties that followed death of alex the great; founded in mesopotamia | 25 | |
| 5019388335 | plato | greek philosopher; knowledge based on consideration of ideal forms outside the material world; proposed ideal form of government based on abstract principles in which the philodophers ruled | 26 | |
| 5019388336 | doric | distinct style of hellenistic architecture, least ornate | 27 | |
| 5019388337 | helots | conquered indigenous population of spartan city-state; provided agricultural labor for spartan landowners; only semifree; largest population of spartan city-state | 28 |
