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Ch. 5 Greece
Question | Answer |
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a city state of ancient greece. | polis |
a walled high area surrounding a polis. | acropolis |
an open area that served as a meeting place and market in early greek city state. | agora |
foot soliders in ancient greece. | hoplites |
great pride. | hubris |
a goverment run by the people | democracy |
athien statesmen he introduced the first civil democracy in greece and created the boule. | solon |
a strong man who seized power by force and clamied to rule for the good of the people. | tryant |
ancient greek ruler often called father of the democracy he incresesd the size ofr the council that goverend athena to 500 and he reorginized athiens tribes on a geographical rather than family basis. | cleisthenes |
the type of governing systems where all people vote directly on an issue. | direct democracy |
a chief of state of acent athens. | archon |
a military composed of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying oikes and heavy spears. | phalanx |
athiens statesmen he encoureged the spread of democracy in athens and the growth of the city states power. | pericles |
greek philospher of athens his teaching style was based on asking questions he wanted people to question there on belifs. he was arrested and condemmed to death for challging authority. | socrates |
greek philospher a student of socrates he started a school in athens called academy. | plato |
greek philospher and student of plato he taught that logic was the tool for any nesscery injury his work later became the basis for medevil scholasticism. | aristotle |
clear and order thinking. | reason |
the process of infrences. | logic |
greek poet he wrote the epic poems the lliad and the odessy which tells stories set during and after the trojan war. | homer |
a type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre an instument that played while the poetry was sung. | lyric poetry |
greek historian. | herodotrus |
greek histoian of athens | thucydides |
king of macedon and conqueror of much of asia. | alexander the great |
the blending of cultures. | hellinistic |
greek geometer. | eulid |
greek astronemer. | eratosthemes |
greek mathmatician | archimedes |