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| 8024087263 | Herodotus | The first great Greek historian | 0 | |
| 8024087264 | The Histories | A book describing the Persian Wars during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E | 1 | |
| 8024087265 | Homer | A Greek poet around the ninth century | 2 | |
| 8024087266 | Iliad | An epic poem that was written by Homer | 3 | |
| 8024087267 | Odyssey | An epic poem written by Homer | 4 | |
| 8024087268 | Plato | A student of Socrates that kept Socrates ideas alive Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens. | 5 | |
| 8024087269 | The Republic | A story written by Plato about a society composed of workers, warriors, and "Philosopher Kings" | 6 | |
| 8024087270 | Aristotle | A student of Plato who became a famous Athenian philosopher | 7 | |
| 8024087271 | Poetics | Written by Aristotle, set down definitions for tragedy and comedy in theaters and definitions of epic and lyric poetry | 8 | |
| 8024087272 | Avesta | A collection of written texts based on Zarathustra's beliefs | 9 | |
| 8024087273 | Aristophanes | The most prolific author of comedies, wrote 40 plays | 10 | |
| 8024087274 | Aeschylus | A playwright that wrote tragedies Oresteia | 11 | |
| 8024087275 | The Trojan Women | A tragedy that describes how Athenians slaughtered people they captured in the Trojan War | 12 | |
| 8024087276 | Euripides | A playwright that wrote tragedies one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC) | 13 | |
| 8024087277 | Sophocles | A Greek playwright that used myths of the gods as literary devices for their plays | 14 | |
| 8024087278 | Parthenon | A massive stone building, rectangular but elegant, featured rows f tall columns on all sides and was topped by a slanted roof with friezes illustrating Greek myths on a panel sitting along the top of the columns | 15 | |
| 8024087279 | Persepolis | Capital city of the Persian Empire featuring an impressive royal palace and artistic traditions of several groups | 16 | |
| 8024087280 | Knossos Palace | A place that Crete arts, jewelry, culture, statuettes and indoor plumbing was showcased | 17 | |
| 8024087281 | Socrates | An influential Greek thinker Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth | 18 | |
| 8024087282 | Socratic Method | The method of clarifying and identifying a person's ideas and core of them | 19 | |
| 8024087283 | Academy | A school that taught students to question the nature of ideas such as good, evil, justice, and beauty | 20 | |
| 8024087284 | Golden Mean | A moderation in which moderate courage is a virtue The golden mean was the group of ideals of order, balance, harmony and moderation. | 21 | |
| 8024087285 | Logic | The science of the formal principles of reasoning | 22 | |
| 8024087286 | Empiricism | Trust in what one learned form observation and evidence rather than religious beliefs and intuition | 23 | |
| 8024087287 | Syncretic | Combining ideas from different sources | 24 | |
| 8024087288 | Zarathustra | Persian prophet that began teaching about Zoroastrianism | 25 | |
| 8024087289 | Qanat | Underground canals | 26 | |
| 8024087290 | Cyrus the Great | Persia leader, ruled 550-530 B.C.E | 27 | |
| 8024087291 | Delian League | Alliance among the Greeks in the Persian War | 28 | |
| 8024087292 | Cambyses | Successor to Cyrus the Great, united three early centers of civilizations, ruled from 530-522 B.C.E | 29 | |
| 8024087293 | Darius I | Ruled Persian Empire from 522-486 B.C.E | 30 | |
| 8024087294 | Xerxes | Successor to Darius I, ruled from 486-465 B.C.E Son of Darius | 31 | |
| 8024087295 | Peloponnesian League | An alliance amongst Sparta and its allies during the Peloponnesian War | 32 | |
| 8024087296 | Philip II | A ruler resolved to conquer and unite the Greek city-states and conquer Asia Minor | 33 | |
| 8024087297 | Alexander the Great | Ruler that conquered land all the way to India King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia | 34 | |
| 8024087298 | Solon | A reform-minded aristocrat who lived during the sixth century B.C.E. ... | 35 | |
| 8024087299 | Pericles | Ruler of Athens from 461-424 B.C.E. | 36 | |
| 8024087300 | Ptolemies | Chief among the generals/rulers, stationed in Egypt | 37 | |
| 8024087301 | Poleis | City-states | 38 | |
| 8024087302 | Monarchies | King ruled the state Systems of government in which unelected kings or queens rule. | 39 | |
| 8024087303 | Aristocracy | Nobles ruled the state A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility | 40 | |
| 8024087304 | Oligarchy | A few wealthy landowners and merchants ruled the state | 41 | |
| 8024087305 | Tyrants | Leaders who seized power with the peoples' support | 42 | |
| 8024087306 | Democracy | All citizens participated to rule the state | 43 | |
| 8024087307 | Direct Democracy | A government in which all citizens could vote directly on laws and other issues in a large assembly | 44 | |
| 8024087308 | Representative Democracy | Citizens elect leaders to represent them and give those leaders powers to make laws and govern | 45 | |
| 8024087309 | Crete | An island in the Aegean Sea that was home to the Minoans | 46 | |
| 8024087310 | Knossos | A wealthy and beautiful city on Crete | 47 | |
| 8024087311 | Minoan Civilization | Civilization that lived on Crete; wealthy, skillful builder, experienced seafarers | 48 | |
| 8024087312 | Syracuse | One of the largest Greek colones on Sicily | 49 | |
| 8024087313 | Agrigentum | One of the largest Greek colonies on Sicily Capital of Sicily | 50 | |
| 8024087314 | Persian Wars | Wars involving Greece against Persia during the fifth and fourth centuries | 51 | |
| 8024087315 | Marathon | A city that the outnumbered Athenian army defended against the Persian forces of Darius | 52 | |
| 8024087316 | Battle of Thermopylae | Persians defeated the Spartans and their allies | 53 | |
| 8024087317 | Battle of Salamis | Naval battle the Athenians won | 54 | |
| 8024087318 | Persians | conquered most of the lands from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India Indo-European who lived in now what is called Iran, created one of the largest empires of the world | 55 | |
| 8024087319 | Achaemenid Empire | First Persian Empire; consisted of Egypt and arts of Southeast Europe The Persian Empire established by Cyrus the Great | 56 | |
| 8024087320 | Seleucids | Ruled Persia from 305-83 B.C.E. They controlled Persia after the death of Alexander. Their king was one of Alexander's generals. | 57 | |
| 8024087321 | Parthians | Originally nomadic peoples, ruled over now Iraq, Iran, and much of the land bordering western India Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E. | 58 | |
| 8024087322 | Sassanids | Took over the Parthians in 224 C.E.; ruled from 224-651 C.E. Persian dynasty successed the Parthians as the last pre-Islamic dynasty in Persia | 59 | |
| 8024087323 | Athens | One of the two most powerful poleis the capital and largest city of Greece | 60 | |
| 8024087324 | Sparta | One of the two most powerful poleis an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess | 61 | |
| 8024087325 | Alexandria | A center of Hellenistic culture and major seaort in Egypt | 62 | |
| 8024087326 | Hellenistic Period | Translated to Greeks Period Time period between death of Alexander(323) and Rise of Rome (27BC) | 63 | |
| 8024087327 | Haplites | Civilian Infantry Member | 64 | |
| 8024087328 | Archons | Top officials in Athenian government | 65 | |
| 8024087329 | Helots | Slaves | 66 | |
| 8024087330 | Satraps | Ruler of a providence who was responsible ot the emperor, not local leaders | 67 | |
| 8024087331 | Aristocrats | Noble Rulers | 68 | |
| 8024087332 | Merchants | Traders and store-owners | 69 | |
| 8024087333 | Spartan Women | Ran households with greater freedom than other Greek women | 70 | |
| 8024087334 | Caravanserai | Combination inns and markets for travelers traveling the Royal road by camel caravan | 71 | |
| 8024087335 | Common Currency | Currency accepted across the empire | 72 | |
| 8024087336 | Royal Road | Famous trade network across 1,500 miles Road that helped unify the Persian Empire | 73 |
