sep 18 world history greeks
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- 5. Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
- 8. Athenian historian and general
- 10. ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician
- 11. ncient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy etc
- 12. ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full
- 15. was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon
- 16. son of king Anaxandridas II
- 17. king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC
- 19. Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily
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- 1. central figure in the story that inspired three modern sporting events
- 2. tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles
- 3. ancient Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist
- 4. Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens
- 6. Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.
- 7. was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
- 9. Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy
- 13. ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy
- 14. Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus,
- 15. ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe
- 18. ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.