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1
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Minoans

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Earliest Greek Civilization (Island of Crete)

2
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King Midas

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Everything he touched turned to gold! Even his daughter D:

3
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Agora

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At the foot of the acropolis, it was the “central hub”

4
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Symposium

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Buncha men drink together and talk philosophy

5
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Cronus

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Leader of the Titans

6
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Polis

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City state, basic political unite of the Helenistic civilization

7
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Metropolis

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“Parent City”

8
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Bards

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Singing storytellers - kept Mycenaean history alive during the “dark age”

9
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Cleisthenes

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“Father of Democracy”

10
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Homer

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Blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

11
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Atlas

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Titan who had to hold up the world for eternity

12
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Pericles

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Athenian leader during the golden age of Greece

13
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Acropolis

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Fortified hill where there was a shrine for local god