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  1. Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
    2: ...en known as [[Ionia]]), [[Sicily]] and southern [[Italy]] (known as [[Magna Graecia|Great Greece]]), a...
    4: ...ut historians use the term more precisely. Some writers include the periods of the [[Minoan civilizati...
    6: ...xtend the term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period...
    8: ... continuum running until the advent of [[Christianity]] in the [[third century]] AD.
    10: ...ics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during th...
  2. Agis II (2300 bytes)
    1: ...s]] and half brother of [[Agesilaus]]. He ruled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pausanias of Sparta|P...
    3: ...], and as king was the chief leader of Spartan military
    4: ...ke out, Agis led the invasion of [[Attica, Greece|Attica]] in [[425 BC]].
    6: ...unaccountably concluded a four months' truce and withdrew his forces.
    8: ... was ended in spring 404 by the surrender of the city.
  3. Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
    2: ...0 BC]]-[[404 BC]]) was an Athenian general and politician.
    9: ...[[Socrates]], he was able to admire, but not to imitate or practise.
    10: On the contrary, his ostentatious vanity, his amours, his debaucheries and his impious re...
    11: But great as were his vices, his abilities were even greater.
    15: ...e is so beautiful, golden, divine, and wonderful within that everything he commands surely must be obe...
  4. Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
    2: | nationality=american
    15: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
    18: ...[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of the United States]], the longest-serving holder of the off...
    20: ...preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
    22: ...opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the internment of the Japan...
  5. Parthenon (12682 bytes)
    3: ...called the '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''&#960...
    9: ...ad charge of the sculptural decoration. The [[architect]]s were [[Iktinos]] and [[Kallikrates]]. Const...
    11: ...o make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
    13: ...er. The stylobate has an upward curvature towards its centre of 60 millimetres on the east and west en...
    19: ...not known what was depicted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]].
  6. Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
    1: ...ght.jpg|none|thumb|805px|The Acropolis of Athens lit up at night, seen from Phillopapus Hill]]
    3: ...px|The Acropolis of Athens, seen from the north, with the restored [[Stoa of Attalus]] in the foregrou...
    9: ...he city of [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], [[Greece]]. It was also known as '''Cecropia''' in honor of the ...
    11: ...egan as an iron-age fort on top of the Acropolis. It was not until after the [[Persian Wars]] that the...
    13: ... built with large blocks made of stones cemented with an earth mortar called ''[[emplekton]]''. The ma...
  7. Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
    1: ...with a 6-year [[truce]] in the middle, and ended with Athens' surrender in [[404 BC]].
    5: ...nnesian League]], had long been the sole major military power in Greece.
    7: ...rians have noted that forbidding Megara to trade with the prosperous Athenian empire would have been d...
    11: ...ss the islands of the [[Aegean Sea]]; Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these isla...
    13: ...nths at a time; in the tradition of earlier [[hoplite]] warfare the soldiers expected to go home to ta...
  8. Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
    3: ...f Asia Minor installed tyrants in most of Ionian cities and forced Greeks to pay taxes for the "King o...
    5: ... the Ionian cities sacked, although they were permitted to have democratic governments afterwards.
    7: ...ed, and the expedition landed in [[Attica, Greece|Attica]] near [[Marathon]]. [[Phidippides (Marathon run...
    9: ...]], leaving Mardonius to winter over in Thessaly with the army.
    11: ...0 Athenian and Peloponnesian [[hoplite]]s, ended with the [[Battle of Plataea]]; Mardonius was killed,...
  9. Architecture of Ancient Greece (9161 bytes)
    3: ... Greek), and from late written sources such as [[Vitruvius]] ([[1st century AD]]). This means that the...
    5: ... are not known before the [[5th century]]. An architect like [[Iktinos]], who designed the [[Parthenon...
    7: ...its transportation in large blocks was difficult. It was used mainly for sculptural decoration, not st...
    10: ...Academy building in Athens, showing the pediment with sculptures]]</td>
    14: ...roofed their buildings with timber beams covered with overlapping terra cotta (or occasionally marble...
  10. Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
    2: ...s]], and [[Tiryns]] are also important Mycenaean sites.
    8: ...a form the Minoan script called [[Linear A]] to write their early form of [[Greek language|Greek]]. Th...
    10: ...uried in a sitting position, and some of the nobility underwent [[mummy|mummification]].
    12: ...le, the [[Dorians]], although the historical validity of this theory is now doubted.
    50: ...ycenaen expansion covering most of the Eastern Mediterranean. There are many new shapes. The motifs of...
  11. Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
    2: ...e usual now to use the more general geographical title.
    6: ...egean civilization has never been in doubt, since its remains came to be studied seriously.
    7: ...ve originated with Egyptians or Phoenicians, but with more remains uncovered this was shown to be untr...
    11: ...age were identical, or even obviously connected, with those of any other script. The decipherment in t...
    15: ...rming the impression already created by the goldsmiths' and painters' work of the Greek mainland ([[My...
  12. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
    2: | nationality=american
    15: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
    18: ...[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of the United States]], the longest-serving holder of the off...
    20: ...preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
    22: ...opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the internment of the Japan...

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