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1
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Cyrus the Great

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Treated people fair and he did nice things.

2
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cavalry

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Unit soldiers ride horses

3
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Darius

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A young prince

4
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Persian Wars

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Wars began between Persia and Greece

5
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Xerxes

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Darius’ Son

6
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alliance

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Agreement to work together

7
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Peloponnesian War

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War between Athens and Sparta

8
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Philip

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Became king of Macedonia

9
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phalanx

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Group of warriors stood close together in a square

10
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Alexander

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Philips’ son

11
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Hellenistic

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Greek-like

12
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Socrates

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One of the greatest thinker

13
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Plato

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student of Socrates

14
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Aristotle

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Greatest thinker of Plato’s student

15
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reason

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clear and ordered thinking

16
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Euclid

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One of the people who study mathematics

17
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Hippocrates

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Greatest doctor