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| a long poem that tells a story |
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| a high rocky hill where early people built cities |
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| a city with its own traditions, government, and laws; both a city and a separate independent state |
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| a member of a rich and powerful family |
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a ruler in ancient Greece who took power by force, with support of
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| form of government in which citizens govern themselves |
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| someone or something that lives forever |
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| in ancient Greece, a sacred site where a god or goddess was consulted; any priest or priestess who spoke for the gods. |
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| someone who uses reason to understand the world |
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| a type of serious drama that ends in disaster for the main character. |
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| a city-state in ancient Greece; the capital city of present-day Greece |
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| a public market and meeting place in an ancient Greek city; |
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| the condition of being owned by and forced to work for someone else |
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| an ancient city-state in Greece on the Peloponesus Peninsula- focused on military |
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| a member of a certain class of servants in ancient Sparta |
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| a war fought between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece; almost every other Greek city-state was involved |
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| an action taken to isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies |
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| to commit murder for political reasons |
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| king of Macedonia conquered Persia and Egypt and invaded India |
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| a term that describes Greek history after the death of Alexander the Great |
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| a country in southeastern Europe; site of a great ancient civilization |
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| the chief temple of the Greek goddess, Athena, on the hill of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece |
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