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1.The Black and Aegean Sea.Ionion sea.The Gulf of Corinth.
2.Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Trojans.Along the shores and on the islands of the Aegean Sea.
The island of Crete, on the Greek mainland, and in the city of Troy and along the Hellesponte in Asia Minor.
3.Minoans. King Minos at Knossos.
4.The Mycenaeans.
5.The Dorians.Hellenes.
6.Homer. Illiad-describes the heroic deeds of the ancient Greeks in their was against Troy; Odyssey-recounts the adventures of a brave Greek warrior, Odysseus on his ten year journey home after his defeat of Troy.
7.Zeus-the chief and father of the gods; Athena- wisdom; Ares- war;Aphrodite- love and beauty; Hera- marriage(Zeus' wife).they were the product of a poetic genius.
8.a city, we get the word politics from this word.
9. Eretria, Marathon, and the Spartans.
10.490 -479 BC.
11.the Persians won and lots of Greeks died.it was the first major naval battle in history.
12.it placed an absolute limit on the westward expansion of the persian empire and ensured that greek culture would continue to thrive the west.

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hellespont-dardanelles in asia minor .
attica-a prominent region of ancient greece.
peloponnesus-a prominent region of ancient greece
trojan war-mycenaeans destroyed the city of troy off the coast of asia minor after a 10 yr. siege
odysseus-a brave greek warrior ; his adventures are in the odyssey.
mt. olympus-where the greek gods lived.
heroes- the differed from the gods only in being mortal and less powerful.
achilles- the invincible greek warrior in the illiad.
barbarian- people who didnt speak greek.
olympic games-held every fourth year at olympia in honor of zeus.
olympiad-the period between the olympics.
darius I- a persian king
xerxes I- Darius' son .
leonidas-a spartan leader who ordered his troops to withdraw at the battle of Thermopylae.
themistocles-an athenian who tricked xerxes into fighting a naval battle in the narrow strait between the mainland and the island of salamis.
plataea- where the persians were defeated by the greeks.