Ancient Greece

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  1. 5. the community structure of ancient Greece
  2. 6. member of a Hellenic people speaking the Doric dialect of Greek, thought to have entered Greece from the north
  3. 8. was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon
  4. 10. government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed to be best qualified to rule.
  5. 11. of or relating to a bronze age culture of Crete
  6. 12. the legendary author to whom the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey (the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature) is attributed
  7. 13. 18th king of Macedonia
  8. 15. pre-eminent Greek philosopher,
  9. 16. Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
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  1. 1. of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine scientist in history.
  2. 2. series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century.
  3. 3. a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta
  4. 4. “to speak Greek or identify with the Greeks.”
  5. 7. tactical formation consisting of a block of heavily armed infantry standing shoulder to shoulder in files several ranks deep
  6. 9. the term applied to the art and culture of Greece
  7. 14. literally, rule by the people