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| How the Minoans influenced Greek culture |
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Gave Greeks architecture, burial customs, and religious rituals
Were outdoorsy and athletic like the Greeks |
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| How the Phoenicians influenced Greek culture |
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Gave the world the phonetic alphabet
Were excellent ship builders - influenced Greek ship building |
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| How the Mycenaeans influenced Greek culture |
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| Influenced Greek religious practice, art, politics, and literature fought the Trojans at Troy in the Trojan war |
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| How the Dorians influenced Greek culture |
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Took over after Mycenaeans
not much known about the Dorians
Known as the Dark Ages of Greek History |
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| wrote the Iliad (story of the Trojan wars) and the odyssey |
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| Battle of Marathon war leader |
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| Ruler of Persia: king Darius I of Persia declared war |
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| Battle of Marathon outcome |
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| Persians wanted to conquer Greece |
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| ran the whole way back to Athens to tell people who won the war and then died. It was about 26 miles, a marathon |
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| Battle of Thermopylae leaders |
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| Xerxes for the Persians, king Leonidas for the Spartans |
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| Battle of Thermopylae cause |
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| Xerxes was eager to defeat Greece after their loss at marathon ten years earlier |
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| Battle of Thermopylae outcome |
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| Persians won, all the Spartans died, and Xerxes burned Athens to the ground |
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