People:

Minos- the mycenaeans
Dorians-barbarian invaders
Ionians- mycenaeans who escaped o Asia Minor and Attica
Hellenes:the greeks of classical times who made such great contributions to Western civilizaion.
Homer:famoous Greek poet
Odysseus:brave greek warior
Hesiod:a lesser degree the later poet
Zeus:the cheif and father of the gods, was associated with thunder and lightning.
Achilles:the invincible Greek warrior
Darius I:the new Persian king
Xerxes:darius son who conqured greece.
Leonidas:he was the Spartan leader
Themistocles:he was a brilliant Athenian
Herodotus:
Draco:he prepared a code of law
Solon:he was elected archon
Peistratus:he was a nobleman aspiring to office
Ceisthenes:he was the new champion of the commmon people
Pericles:he was a statesman that bought Athenian democracy to its fullest
Philip II:he became the King of Macedonia
Demosthenes:he was a famous Athenian orator and statesman
Alexander the Great:he was the young Macedonian King
Protagoras:he was a Greek Philosopher
Thucydides: wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War
sophocles:wrote two of the most greatest tragedies
aristophanes: used his plays to satirize political and cultural life in Athens
aesop:a freed slave living in the 6th century B.C.
sophist,relativists: those who believed that there are no absolute truths
socrates: man who was disatisfied with the sophists
plato:wrote 30 or more works of philosophy
aristotle:a student of Plato, who mastered every field of learning known to the Greeks and concluded that the order of the universe must have come from God.
galen:a Greco-Roman physician who lived in the second century A.D
archimedes:made important contributions to mathematics, engineering, and physics

Balkan Peninsula: extends into the Mediterranean Sea
Hellespont:dardanelles
Knossos where king minos was
Troy:trojans
Mount Olympus: gods lived on this mountain
Marathon:a da's march northeast of Athens
Thermopylae: a narrow mountain pass in central Greece near the Aegean Sea
Salamis
Plataea
Athens
Sparta
Macedonia
Alexandria
Ipsus
Parthenon