Ancient Greece
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- Sparta
- an ancient Greek city famous for military prowess
- Crete
- the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean
- agora
- a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece
- Olympus
- a mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast
- Alexandria
- the chief port of Egypt
- Marathon
- a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians
- Athens
- the capital and largest city of Greece
- Persia
- an empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC
- Knossos
- an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC
- acropolis
- the citadel in ancient Greek towns