Ancient Greece Vocab

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A story explaining natural phenomena

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Myth

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Phalanx is ...

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Greek battle formation

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Peloponnese is a region in Greece, surrounded by water on three sides.

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Peninsula

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Marketplace in a Greek Polis

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Agora

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A long poem that tells a story

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Epic

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Athens cutting off Sparta and closing it to travel and trade is an example of

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Blockade

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Athens' democracy had an assembly called a

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Group of citizen voters

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Sparta attempted to surround Argos and cut off supplies.

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Siege

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Greek foot soldiers

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Hoplites

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Zeus and the Olympians are ___, meaning they can live forever.

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Immortal