________ saw a revival of some trade and some economic activity besides agriculture.
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Topography
________ helped determine the major territories into which Greece was ultimately divided.
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Classical Greece
________ is the name given to the period of Greek history from around 500 B.
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Sophocles
________- The most successful writer of Greek tragedies was the Athenian playwright ________, whose background included holding some important public offices in Athens.
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Cleon
In the confrontation between ________ and Antigone, Sophocles bears witness to the complexity of human existence.
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Poleis
________ varied greatly in size, from a few square miles to a few hundred square miles.
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Aeolian Greeks
The ________, located in northern and central Greece, colonized the large island of Lesbos and the adjacent territory on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor.
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Minoan Cretans
________ also made contact with and exerted influence on the Greek- speaking inhabitants of the Greek mainland.
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southwestern Greece
The Dorians established themselves in ________, especially in the Peloponnesus, as well as on some of the southern Aegean islands, including Crete and Rhodes.
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Homeric Greece
Homer and ________ The Iliad and the Odyssey, the first great epic poems of early Greece, were based on stories that had been passed on from generation to generation.
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hoplite force
The ________, which apparently developed first in the Peloponnesus, had political as well as military repercussions.
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Greece
________ had a long seacoast, dotted by bays and inlets that provided numerous harbors.
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Mycenae
Agamemnon, the king of ________, returns a hero after the defeat of Troy.
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Greek Communities
No doubt the small size of these independent ________ fostered participation in political affairs and unique cultural expressions, but the rivalry among these ________ also led to the bitter warfare that ultimately devastated Greek society.
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Mycenaean Civilization
After the collapse of the ________, Greece entered a difficult period in which population declined and food production dropped.
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Aegean Sea
During the Dark Age, large numbers of Greeks left the mainland and migrated across the ________ to various islands and especially to the southwestern shore of Asia Minor, a strip of territory that came to be called Ionia.
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The Dorians
________ established themselves in southwestern Greece, especially in the Peloponnesus, as well as on some of the southern Aegean islands, including Crete and Rhodes.
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The Greek Polis
________ developed slowly during the Dark Age, but by the eighth century had emerged a unique and fundamental institution in Greek society.
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The phalanx
________ was easily routed, however, if it broke its order. The safety of the phalanx thus depended on the solidarity and discipline of its members.
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Sparta
To maintain its new leadership in Greek affairs, ________ encouraged a Panhellenic crusade against the Persians as a common enemy.
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Herodotus
The central theme of ________Â work is the conflict between the Greeks and the Persians, which he viewed as a struggle between Greek freedom and Persian despotism.
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Sophocles
________Â - The most successful writer of Greek tragedies was the Athenian playwright ________, whose background included holding some important public offices in Athens.