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The Persian wars were wars where Persian leader Xerxes wanted to conquer more and more land and keep expanding Persia´s empire
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The Battle of Thermopylae was the battle where king Leonidas of Sparta met the Persian army at Thermopylae which is a pass in between high cliffs and the sea.
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Socrates was a philosopher that was one of the greatest of his time. he would ask questions and when answered he would keep asking questions.
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Sophocles was a famous play writer that was known for many plays such as Oedipus and Antigone
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The Parthenon was a temple built by Ictinus and made for Athena.
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The Peloponnesian war was a war between Athens and Sparta for power. Sparta marched to Athens and burned all the crops and waited and begged to fight Athens. Soon they ran out of food and returned to Sparta. Then a plague swept through Athens an it killed Pericles. Then Alcibiades took over and tried to attack Sicily but got wrecked by Sparta. Finally Sparta conquered Athens.
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Alcibiades was a power hungry general. He was the Athenian general during the Peloponnesian war and tried to split his army and got crushed by Sparta.
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He was one of the great philosophers of his time. He was taught by Socrates and created the Academy which was the first institution of higher learning.
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He was also one of the great philosophers of his time. He tutored Alexander the Great so Alexander could grow up to be a great general of Macedon.
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Alexander was a prince of Macedon until his father was assassinated and Alexander had to take charge at a very young age. when he was older he began to take Persia down.
