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HI 101-2
pg. 62-67
Term | Definition |
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balkan peninsula | what mountain range extends into the Mediterranean sea from the southeastern Europe |
attica and peloponnesus | two prominent regions of ancient greece |
minoans | the first important European civilization after the flood |
ionians | Mycenaean escaped from the Dorian to Asia minor and Attica where they became known as |
hellenes | Greeks who made a great contribution to western civilization |
homer | who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey |
acropolis | the typical polis surrounded a hilltop fortress called what |
agora | another name for marketplace |
barbarians | people who did not speak Greek |
Athens, Eretria, and Sparta | refused to be part of the Persian empire and under Darius I |
490 BC | when the Greco-Persian war |
Xerxes I | determined to conquer Greece |
thermopylae | a narrow mountain pass in central Greece near the Aegean sea |
battle of salamis | the first major naval battle in history |
479 BC | when was the battle of plataea |
Xerxes defeat in Greece | turning point in world history |