Ancient Greece Map 2

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Known to be the home of Alexander the Great?
Options: Crete, Mycenae, Persia, Macedonia

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Macedonia

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Greek city-states established colonies along the coasts of modern-day Italy and Sicily, such as Taras (Tarentum), Syracuse, and Croton, which became centers of Greek culture in the western Mediterranean. Which sea are these colonies located along?

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Ionian Sea

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Known for having the Temple of Apollo.

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Delphi

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Known for the myth of the Minotaur and the center of Minoan civilization. Also called Knossos

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Crete

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Where did Zeus live?

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Mount Olympus

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# 11? long thought to be a mythical location from Homer’s Iliad, it was discovered in the 1870s by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann near modern-day Hisarlik in Turkey. Schliemann’s excavation revealed layers of ruins, confirming it as a real city and providing evidence of a rich and complex civilization linked to the legendary Trojan War.

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Troy

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# 6? Connects Greece to Egypt & Mesopotamia.

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Mediterranean Sea

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Leonidas and Menelaus were kings. Where were they kings?

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Sparta

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Ruled by Darius, Cyrus, & Xerxes.

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Persia

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Head of the Delian League

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Athens