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| 7291429860 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. | 0 | |
| 7291431504 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. | 1 | |
| 7291433106 | Shaft graves | A term used for the burial sites of elite members of Mycenaean Greek society in the mid-second millennium B.C.E. | 2 | |
| 7291435254 | Phoenicians | Semitic-speakinf Canaanites living on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria in the first millennium B.C.E. | 3 | |
| 7291437068 | Linear B | A set of syllabic symbols, derived from the writing system of Minoan Crete, used in the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age to write an early form of Greek. | 4 | |
| 7291438503 | Hittites | A people from central Anatolia who established an empire in Anatolia and Syria in the Late Bronze Age. | 5 | |
| 7291439674 | Mass deportation | The forcible removal and relocation of large numbers of people or entire populations. | 6 | |
| 7291444801 | Library of Ashurbanipal | A large collection of writing drawn from the ancient literary, religioud, and scientific traditions of Mesopotamia. | 7 | |
| 7291446722 | Israel | In antiquity, the land between the eastern shore of the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, occupied by the Israelites from the early second millennium B.C.E. | 8 | |
| 7291447958 | First Temple | A monumrntal sanctuary built in Jerusalem by King Solomon in the tenth century B.C.E. to be the religious center for the Israelite god Yahweb. | 9 | |
| 7291449202 | Monotheism | Belief in the existance of a single divine entity. | 10 | |
| 7291449289 | Diaspora | A Greek word meaning "dispersal," used to describe the communities of a given ethnic group living outside their homeland. | 11 | |
| 7291451073 | Carthage | City located in present-day Tunisia, founded by Phoenicians ca. 800 B.C.E. | 12 | |
| 7291452077 | Cyrus | Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. | 13 | |
| 7291454308 | Darius I | Third ruler of the Persian Empire (r. 521-486 B.C.E.) | 14 | |
| 7291454309 | Satrap | The govenor of a province n the Achaemenid Persian Empire, often a relative of the king. | 15 | |
| 7291456127 | Persepolis | A complex of palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homeland. | 16 | |
| 7291456971 | Zoroastrianism | A region originating in ancient Iran with the prophet Zoroaster. | 17 | |
| 7291456972 | Polis | The Greek term for a city-state, an urban center and the agricultural territory under its control. | 18 | |
| 7291458961 | Hoplite | A heavily armored Greek infantryman if the Archaic and classical periods who fought in the close-ppacked phalanx formation. | 19 | |
| 7291458962 | Tyrant | The term the Greeks used to describe someone who seized and held power in violation of the normal procedures and traditions of the community. | 20 | |
| 7291460558 | Democracy | A system of government in which all "citizens" have equal political and legal rights, privileges, and protections, as in the Greek city-state of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. | 21 | |
| 7291460559 | Sacrifice | A gift given to a deity, often with the aim of creatinf a relationship, gaining favor, and obligatinf the god to provide some benefit to the sacrificer, sometimes in order to sustain the deity and thereby guarantee the continuing vitality of the natural world. | 22 | |
| 7291462156 | Herodotus | Heir to the technique of historia developed by Greeks in the late Archaic period. | 23 | |
| 7291462157 | Pericles | Arizrocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens, supervised construction of the Acropolis, and pursued a policy of imperial expansion that led to the Peloponnesian War. | 24 | |
| 7291464158 | Persian Wars | Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, ranging from the Ionian Revolt through Darius's punitive expedition that failed at Marathon and defeated Xerxes' massive invasion of Greece by the Spartan-led Hellenic League. | 25 | |
| 7291464159 | Trireme | Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. | 26 | |
| 7291467709 | Socrates | Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior. | 27 | |
| 7291467710 | Peloponnesian War | A protracted and costly conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world. | 28 | |
| 7291469370 | Alexander | King of Macedonia in northern Greece. | 29 | |
| 7291469371 | Hellenistic Age | Historians term for the era usually dated 323-30 B.C.E., in which Greek culture spread scross western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. | 30 | |
| 7291472233 | Ptolemies | The Macedonian dynasty, decended from one of Alexander the Greats officers, that ruled Egypt for three centuries. | 31 | |
| 7291474802 | Alexandria | City of the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. | 32 |
