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- The ___ or city-state was the basic political unit in Greece
- Who took the throne in Macedonia after King Philip II was assassinated?
- Which historian examined his sources critically and excluded those that were unreliable?
- Which side controlled much of the territory surrounding the Aegean Sea during the Peloponnesian War?
- "What is truth" question is associated with?
- The Persian emperer Darius attacked the Greek mainland to gain control of Greece's vast natural resources T or F?
- After the death of Alexander the Great, Selecus became the pharaoh of Egypt T or F?
- ___ used careful observations and simple geometry to calculate the circumference of the wars
- The Macedonian King ___ conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta before his assassination
- ___ was the greatest Greek writer of comedy
- In the ___, Athens surrendered to Sparta in 404 BC
- What is the correct sequence of influential men in the development of democracy in Athens?
- Which leader set the stage for Athenian democracy by breaking up the power of noble families?
- ___, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, is probably the most famous Greek poet
- New schools of philosophy developed during the Hellenistic period, in part because ___
- Alexander the Greta built the largest empire the world had ever seen T or F?
- The ___ was an alliance of several Greek city-states led by Sparta
- Two distinct cultures developed in early Greece, the Minoans and the ___
- Macedonia was able to take control of all Greece in the 340s BC because the Persian Empire had soundly defeated Athens and Sparta T or F?
- A high, walled area within each city-state called a(n) ___ housed temples to the gods and spaces for public ceremonies.