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... victory in ancient Greece , it is certain that the Greeks of history were tongue does very far from being exclusively the descendants of the " Greek " not imply purity of invaders . The idea that the older inhabitants were entirely ...
... victory in ancient Greece , it is certain that the Greeks of history were tongue does very far from being exclusively the descendants of the " Greek " not imply purity of invaders . The idea that the older inhabitants were entirely ...
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... victory it gained over its Slavonic sister in the Middle Ages . The Slavs who settled in the Peloponnesus lost their own ' tongue and adopted Greek . It failed , however , to master Albanian . 1 Much stress should be laid on the change ...
... victory it gained over its Slavonic sister in the Middle Ages . The Slavs who settled in the Peloponnesus lost their own ' tongue and adopted Greek . It failed , however , to master Albanian . 1 Much stress should be laid on the change ...
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... victory over their conquerors ; the Achaean language prevailed . The Thessalians gave up their own idiom and learned , not indeed without modifying , the speech of their subjects , so that the dialect of historic Thessaly bears. The ...
... victory over their conquerors ; the Achaean language prevailed . The Thessalians gave up their own idiom and learned , not indeed without modifying , the speech of their subjects , so that the dialect of historic Thessaly bears. The ...
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... victory over the Cimmerians , and sent their chiefs in chains to Nineveh . But he did not long brook to be the vassal of another sovereign . He threw off his allegiance to Assyria , and sent Ionian and Carian mercenary soldiers to Egypt ...
... victory over the Cimmerians , and sent their chiefs in chains to Nineveh . But he did not long brook to be the vassal of another sovereign . He threw off his allegiance to Assyria , and sent Ionian and Carian mercenary soldiers to Egypt ...
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... victory won , by regiments of mailed foot - lancers , who march and fight together in close ranks . The secret had been discovered that such well - drilled spears- men - hoplites as they were called - were superior to cavalry ; and much ...
... victory won , by regiments of mailed foot - lancers , who march and fight together in close ranks . The secret had been discovered that such well - drilled spears- men - hoplites as they were called - were superior to cavalry ; and much ...
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Achaean Acropolis Aegean Aegean civilisation Aegina Aeolian Argive Argos army Aryan Asia Minor Assembly Athenian Athens Attica battle became Boeotia Brasidas called Carian Cimon citizens Cleisthenes Cleon Cnossus coast colonies conquest Corcyra Corinth Corinthian Council Cretan Crete Darius Delphi Dorian eastern Egypt Egyptian Euboea expedition fleet fortress Greece Greek Gulf Hellas Hellenic Heracles Herodotus hill Homeric hoplites Iliad influence inhabitants invaders invasion Ionian island Isthmus king Lacedaemonians land later legend lords Lydia Megara Miletus Mycenae Mycenaean nobles northern oracle palace peace Peloponnesian Peloponnesus peninsula perhaps Pericles Persian Phoenician Phrygian Pisistratus plain Plataea poems poet political probably Pylos race revolt sailed Salamis SECT seems settlements settlers seventh century ships shores Sicels Sicily side Solon Sparta Syracuse temple Thebes Themistocles Thessalian Thessaly Thrace Thucydides tion Tiryns tombs town tribe Trojan Troy tyrant victory wall western Xerxes Zeus