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| 191069928 | ethnocentrism | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group, tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups | 0 | |
| 191069929 | xenophobia | an irrational fear of foreigners or strangers | 1 | |
| 191069930 | reverberate | have a long or continuing effect, to reflect or be reflected repeatedly | 2 | |
| 191069931 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace complex in southern Greece that controlled a Late Bronze Age kingdom. In Homer's epic poems Mycenae was the base of King Agamemnon, who commanded the Greeks besieging Troy. | 3 | |
| 191069932 | polis | Greek word for city-state | 4 | |
| 191069933 | Battle of Marathon | in 490 B.C., King Darius sent army to attack Athens; Athenians defeated them on the Plain of Marathon; Pheidippides ran 26 miles with the news | 5 | |
| 191069934 | Xerxes | son of Darius; became Persian king. He vowed revenge on the Athenians. He invaded Greece with 180,000 troops in 480 B.C. | 6 | |
| 191069935 | Acropolis | a large hill in ancient Greece where city residents sought shelter and safety in times of war and met to discuss community affairs, highest and most fortified point within a Greek city-state | 7 | |
| 191069936 | Iberian Peninsula | the peninsula that is Spain and France, Southwestern tip of Europe: present location of Spain and Portugal | 8 | |
| 191069937 | "Mystery" religions | 1. imported form the Middle East, swept through Greece and Rome, emphasis on contact with divine powers. 2. A diverse group of beliefs and practices of ancient Greek and Roman civilization that included initiation into a specific group, a personal encounter with the deity, and hope for spiritual renewal and a better afterlife. | 9 | |
| 191069938 | Herodotus | wrote about Persian war, father of history, word history comes from name, 1st to gather facts and write them down | 10 |
