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| 247754113 | Persian War | a war fought between a coalition led by the United States and Iraq to free Kuwait from Iraqi invaders | 0 | |
| 247754114 | Peloponnesian War | a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta | 1 | |
| 247754115 | Marathon | a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians | 2 | |
| 247754116 | Salamis | naval battle where the Greek forces defeated the Persians, shortly after the battle at Thermopylae | 3 | |
| 247754117 | Antigonid empire | The empire in Greece after the breakup of Alexander's empire. | 4 | |
| 247754118 | Ptolemaic empire | The empire in the Egyptian area after the breakup of Alexander's empire. | 5 | |
| 247754119 | Seleucid empire | The empire in Syria, Persia, and Bactria after the breakup of Alexander's empire. | 6 | |
| 247754120 | Epicureans | People who believed the proper pursuit of humankind is undisturbed withdrawal from the world | 7 | |
| 247754121 | Skeptics | This group of Hellenistic philosophers questioned any assumptions and had a goal of achieving peace of mind. | 8 | |
| 247754122 | Stoics | Hellenistic group of philosophers; emphasized inner moral independence cultivated by strict discipline of the body and personal bravery | 9 | |
| 247754123 | Demeter | (Greek mythology) goddess of fertility and protector of marriage in ancient mythology | 10 | |
| 247754124 | Dionysus | (Greek mythology) god of wine and fertility and drama | 11 | |
| 247754125 | Zeus | king of gods and ruler of Mount Olympus; god of the sky, thunder, and justice | 12 | |
| 247754126 | Apollo | god of poetry, music, prophecy, medicine, and archery | 13 | |
| 247754127 | Socrates | philosopher who believed in an absolute right or wrong; asked students pointed questions to make them use their reason, later became Socratic method | 14 | |
| 247754128 | 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 philosophers ruled | 15 | |
| 247754129 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher; teacher of Alexander the Great; knowledge based on observation of phenomena in material world | 16 | |
| 247754130 | Philip of Macedon | ruled Macedon from 359 to 336 BCE; founder of centralized kingdom; later conquered rest of Greece which was subjected to Macedonian authority; father of Alexander the Great | 17 | |
| 247754131 | Solon | Athenian reformer of the 6th century; established laws that eased the burden of debt on farmers, forbade enslavement for debt | 18 | |
| 247754132 | Pericles | Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon. | 19 | |
| 247754133 | Seleucus | Greek general under Alexander the Great whoe took most of the old Persian Empire, which became known as the Seleucid kingdom. | 20 | |
| 247754134 | Sappho | (born ca. 612 B.C.E.) One of the great poets of the ancient Greeks; her poetry developed the complexities of the inner workings of human beings and love. | 21 | |
| 247754135 | Arrian | which of the following people wrote that Alexander the Great possessed, "great personal beauty, invincible power of endurance, and a keen intellect"? | 22 | |
| 247754136 | Antigonus | became king of Macedonia and took control of the Greek city states | 23 | |
| 247754137 | Ptolemy | Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD) | 24 | |
| 247754138 | Aeschylus | writer of tragedies; wrote Oresteia; proposed the idea of having two actors and using props and costumes | 25 | |
| 247754139 | Sophocles | one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC) | 26 | |
| 247754140 | Euripides | writer, used regular people instead of Gods, and tried to answer real life questions in playwrite | 27 | |
| 247754141 | Aristophanes | Greek writer and comtemporary of Sophocles and Euripides. Was the "Father of Comedy" - used satire and fantasy to challenge problematic situations. Most famous: The Archarnians and The Lysistrata | 28 |
