Chapter 5 Identify Vocab
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- Battle of Marathon
- Battle where Persia invaded Greece
- Themistocles
- An Athens leader who told the Athenians to leave the city and escape
- Battle of Thermopylae
- Battle where Spartan troops fought to the death against the larger Persian force
- Peisistratus
- A tyrant who ruled over Athens around 546B.C-527B.C
- Sophists
- Athenian men who opened school for boys to study
- Illiad
- Epic that tells the story of the Trojan War
- Sappho
- An ancient Greek poet
- Draco
- An archon believed to have created Athen's first written law code around 621B.C
- Odyssey
- Tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan War
- Minoans
- The earliest Greek civilization
- Persian Wars
- Wars between Greece and Peersia
- Mycenaens
- Civilation that conqyered the Minoans
- Delian League
- Alliance of city-states in ancient Greece
- Homer
- A blind poet who wrote the great epics Iliad and Odyssey
- Peloponnesian War
- A war that broke out between Athens and Sparta
- Solon
- An archon in 594B.C and settled debutes creditors and debtors
- Olympic Games
- Contests created to please the gods