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Where was sparta’s first colony located?
Tarentum/Taras
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greek word for city
polis
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when were the first ancient olympics held?
776 BCE
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what spartan king wrote their constitution “the great rehtra” c.750 BC?
lycurgus
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who overthrew the bacchiad family who had tried to kill him as a child?
cypselus
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what argive king later became tyrant in his city?
pheidon
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what wise sage instituted many reforms, including no debt slavery in athens?
solon
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what spartan king invaded athens?
cleomenes
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what was a strategos?
a general
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what were inferior inhabitants of sparta called?
helots
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what “father of democracy” reformed the athenian constitution?
cleisthenes
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what persian king tried to capture greece in the 480s bc?
xerxes
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what allowed athens to develop their powerful navy?
silver at Mt. Laurion
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at what battle in 480 bc were the famous 300 spartans killed by persia?
thermopylae
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what famous general defeated persia at salamis in 480 bc?
themistocles
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who ruled athens during its golden age around 430 bc and commissioned the parthenon?
pericles
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what two men killed the ipparchus in 514 bce and were known as the tyrannicides?
harmodius and aristogeiton
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what father of hipparchus and hippias was the only man to be athenian tyrant twice?
peisistratus
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who was the father of alexander the great?
philip II
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who was the mother of alexander the great?
olympias
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what was a satrap?
persian governor
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who was the main persian enemy of alexander the great?
Darius III
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where did these two meet in battle?
issus
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in what year was socrates forced to drink hemlock and die?
399 BCE
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in what year did alexander the great die?
323 bce
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who was known as the weeping philosopher?
heraclitus
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what philosopher correctly predicted the eclipse of 585 bce?
thales
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who led the ionian revolt?
aristagoras
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who was known as the most honorable mean in athens and even voted to ostracize himself?
aristides
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where did thebes defeat sparta and kill their king in 371 bce?
leuctra