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Ancient Greece Vocabulary
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- 1Land surrounded on three sides by water.Peninsula
- 2A sea in the Mediterranean Sea that surrounds Greece and Turkey, named after King Aegeaus.Aegean Sea.
- 3The highest mountain in Greece where it was believed the Greek gods dwelled.Mt. Olympus.
- 4An island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece and home of the Minoan Civilization.Crete
- 5A civilization that flourished from 2700 to 1450 b.c. on the island of Crete that influenced the people of the Greek mainland,Minoans
- 6The English archaeologists who first discovered the Minoan Civilization and named it after the mythical King Minos.Arthur Evans
- 7An enormous palace complex on Crete.Knossos
- 8Mainland Greeks who invaded Crete that flourished from 1600 to 1100 b.c.Mycenaeans
- 9A period from 1100 to 750 b.c. after the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization where there are few written records and no one knew how to write.Dark Ages
- 10Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.Homer
- 11Epic poem written by Homer that tells about the Trojan war and the Trojan Horse after the kidnapping of Queen Helen.The Iliad.
- 12Homer's epic poem following the Iliad telling of the Greek soldier Odysseus's voyage back home after the Trojan war.The Odyssey
- 13A Greek city-state.Polis
- 14A fortified area on top of a hill.Acropolis
- 15An open area that served as the market place.Agora
- 16A temple dedicated to a god or goddess.Parthenon
- 17Heavily armed foot soldiers who carried round shields, short swords, and spears.Hoplites
- 18A rectangular formation where soldiers would stand shoulder to shoulder creating a wall of shields.Phalanx
- 19A Greek city-state that expanded and conquered the Laconians and Messenians.Sparta
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