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Early civilization on the Greek island of Crete
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Minoan Civilization
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Peloponnesian civilization in which the Greek language developed
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Mycenaean Civilization
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1100-800 BC period in Greek history in which old settlements were abandoned
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Greek Dark Ages
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800-480 BC period in Greek history in which city-states ("polis") emerged
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Archaic Greece
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Name the two epics created by Homer in this period (in chronological order)
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Iliad
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Odyssey
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Mathematician of this period who formulated a theorem related to right triangles
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Pythagoras
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Philosopher of this period who predicted an eclipse
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Thales of Miletus
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Statesman of this period who formulated Athenian democracy
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Cleisthenes
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499-493 BC revolt of Greek city-states in Asia Minor against Persia
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Ionian Revolt
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The above was suppressed by this Persian king, who invaded Greece
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Darius the Great
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490 BC battle that gave its name to a 42-kilometer-long-race
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Battle of Marathon
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480 BC battle in which 300 Spartans led by Leonidas were killed
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Battle of Thermopylae
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480 BC battle in which Greeks destroyed the Persian naval fleet
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Battle of Salamis
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470 BC battle after which Persian conquest stopped
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Battle of Plataea
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Confederacy of Greek city-states led by Athens against Persia
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Delian League
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500-300 BC period in Greek history known by Athenian and Spartan rivalry
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Classical Greece
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Athenian statesman who oversaw construction of the Acropolis
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Pericles
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Father of history famous for his accounts of the Persian Wars
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Herodotus
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Father of medicine famous for his oath, the ethnic guideline of modern doctors
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Hippocrates
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431-404 BC war in which Sparta won and Athens lost
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Peloponnesian War
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Philosopher who died from drinking hemlock
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Socrates
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Student of the above, founder of the Academy in Athens
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Plato
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Student of the above, pioneer of scientific examination
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Aristotle
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Student of the above, created a vast empire divided after his death
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Alexander the Great
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Series of wars after which the Roman Empire conquered Greece
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Macedonian Wars
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Christ apostle credited with bringing Christianity to Greece
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Paul the Apostle
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Greek became the official language of this successor state to Rome
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Byzantine Empire
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Greece later fell to this Islamic empire that imposed the devshirme
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Ottoman Empire
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Term for mountain-dwelling rebels that harass authorities of the above empire
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Klephts
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Bishop who led revolts and was flayed alive in 1611
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Dionysios Skylosophos
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Humanist scholar who revived classicism and inspired independence struggle
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Adamantios Korais
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Writer who became Greece's first freedom fighter and was martyred in 1798
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Rigas Feraios
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1821-1832 war in which Greece gained its independence
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Greek War of Independence
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Greek patriot and general who won the 1822 Battle of Dervenakia
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Theodoros Kolokotronis
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British romantic poet who died fighting for Greek independence in 1824
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Lord Byron
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1827 battle in which the British, Russian and French defeated Turkish navy
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Battle of Navarino
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Prime Minister who modernized Greece and declared bankruptcy in 1893
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Charilaos Trikoupis
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6.4-kilometer-long canal, completed in 1893, that cut through an isthmus
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Corinth Canal
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The first modern version of these games was held in Athens in 1896
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Olympic Games
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"Ethnarch" who expanded Greece in area and won World War I
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Eleftherios Venizelos
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A 1919-1922 war led to the independence of this neighboring country in 1923
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Turkey
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Greece won a 1940-1941 war against this country
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Italy
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Greece was occupied by this country from 1941 to 1945 during World War II
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Germany
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1944-1949 war in which the Hellenic army defeated the communists
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Greek Civil War
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1967-1974 period in which Greece was ruled by a right-wing dictatorship
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Greek Junta
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Dictator who led most of the above period
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Georgios Papadopoulos
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Leader of the Metapolitefsi who restored democracy in Greece
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Konstantinos Karamanlis
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In 2002, Greece adopted the Euro that replaced this traditional currency
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Greek Drachma
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Greece suffered from this crisis as an aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis
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Government Debt Crisis
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