ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERS PERSIAN EMPIRE

A LARGE PENINSULA AT THE WESTERN EDGE OF ASIA, ALSO CALLED ASIA MINOR

A DEMOCRATIC GREEK POLIS WHICH ACCOMPLISHED MANY CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS, AND WHICH WERE CONSTANTLY AT WAR WITH SPARTA

A LARGE PENINSULA IN SOUTHERN EUROPE BOUNDED BY THE BLACK, AEGEAN AND ADRIATIC SEAS

AN ARISTOCRAT WHO CREATED A COUNCIL OF 500 AND HELPED FORM ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY

A GREEK ISLAND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, SOUTHEAST OF GREECE

KING OF PERSIA AND FOUNDER OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE (CIRCA 600-529 B.C.)

THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE DELIAN LEAGUE TILL 454 B.C.

THE PERSIAN KING WHO DEFEATED THE REBELLIOUS IONIAN GREEKS AND VOWED TO DESTROY ATHENS IN REVENGE

WHAT THE GREEKS CALLED THEMSELVES

SITE OF THE FAMOUS BATTLE FOUGHT BETWEEN THE ARMIES OF PERSIA AND THE OUTNUMBERED ATHENIANS. ATHENS WAS VICTORIOUS AND A MESSENGER WAS SENT TO RUN THE 26 MILES BACK TO THE CITY WITH THE NEWS

A GREEK-SPEAKING PEOPLE WHO MIGRATED INTO MAINLAND GREECE AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION

GREEKS REVOLT AGAINST PERSIANS RULERS

KING OF SPARTA; MILITARY COMMANDER IN BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE

GREEKS COLONIZE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

GREEK HISTORIAN; CONSIDERED THE FATHER HISTORY

HEAVILY ARMED GREEK INFANTRY MEN WHO MARCHED AND FOUGHT IN CLOSE RANKS; MOST OF THE RECRUITS WERE MIDDLE-CLASS CITIZENS

EARLIEST GREEK CIVILIZATION THAT HAD DEVELOPED ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE BY 2000 B.C.

AREA BETWEEN THE GREEKS AND SLAVIC REGIONS; CONQUERED BY GREECE AND MESOPOTAMIA UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PHILIP II AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT

GREEK BIOGRAPHER OF THE FIRST TO EARLY SECOND CENTURY A.D. AUTHOR OF PARALLEL LIVES WHICH COMPARED FAMOUS MEN OF CLASSICAL GREECE AND REPUBLICAN ROME

LAST MAJOR BATTLE OF THE PERSIAN WAR WHERE THE GREEKS DEFEATED THE PERSIANS

GREATEST EMPIRE IN THE WORLD UP TO 500 B.C.E. SPOKE AN INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE. A MULTI-ETHNIC AND MULTI-RELIGIOUS EMPIRE. FELL TO ALEXANDER THE GREAT

ATHENIAN LEADER NOTED FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRACY IN ATHENS AND FOR ORDERING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PARTHENON

A MOUNTAINOUS PENINSULA IN SOUTHERN GREECE. SPARTA WAS LOCATED ON THIS PENINSULA

C. 431 B.C.

C. 1450 B.C

A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SETTLED ON THE GREEK MAINLAND AROUND 2000 B.C; THESE PEOPLE INVADED SURROUNDING MANY SURROUNDING KINGDOMS

C. 1200 B.C.

LEGENDARY KING OF CRETE

MINOANS CONTROL EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

THE FOUNDER OF PERSIA'S CLASSICAL PRE-ISLAMIC RELIGION

C. 480 B.C.

A FAMOUS BATTLE IN 480 B.C.. WHERE THE PERSIANS ATTACKED THE SPARTANS, BATTLE HELD IN A MOUNTAIN PASS

ATHENIAN COMMANDER WHO ORDERED EVERYONE TO LEAVE ATHENS, HE TRICKED THE PERSIAN FLEET INTO SAILING INTO A NARROW CHANNEL BETWEEN GREECE AND SALAMIS

SON OF DARIUS, BECAME PERSIAN KING. HE VOWED REVENGE ON THE ATHENIANS. HE INVADED GREECE WITH 180,000 TROOPS IN 480 B.C.

A GREEK CITY-STATE THAT DEFEATED SPARTA

PLACE WHERE THE GREEK FLEET ATTACKED THE PERSIAN FLEET

GREEK CITY-STATE THAT WAS RULED BY AN OLIGARCHY, FOCUSED ON MILITARY, USED SLAVES FOR AGRICULTURE, DISCOURAGED THE ARTS

EARLY GREEK WHO BROUGHT DEMOCRATIC REFORMS SUCH AS HIS FORMATION OF THE COUNCIL OF 400