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Unit Vocab (Dieselman)

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strait   narrow body of water between land masses  
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Minoan   Anything having to with civilization on Crete around 1500 BCE  
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Mycenae   Capital City of the Greeks who conquered TroyAgememnon was the King  
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Troy   War 1300 BC Troy v. Mycenaens. Troy lost b/c of the Trojan Horse  
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Homer   Blind poet. Famous for his versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey  
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Iliad   Trojan War  
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The Odyssey   Odysseus' long trip back from the Trojan War  
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polis   The city-state. the city and the surrounding farm land  
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acropolis   high city, paid tribute to the Gods with temples (Athens)  
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monarchy   gov't rule by king  
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aristocracy   gov't rule by rich land owners  
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Oligarchy   gov't rule by a few  
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phalanx   massive formation of heavily armored foot soldiers  
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direct democracy   Citizens have a direct role and responsibility in the running of their gov't Democracy = gov't of the people ((Town Meeting in Hingham))  
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representative democracy   gov't run by elected officials  
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helot   a slave in Sparta. the helots outnumbered the citizens of Sparta  
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Assembly   legislative group made of all citizens in Athens  
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tyrant   People who gained power by force. They were not elected. In Athens tyrants made important reforms (Solon, Pisistratus, Cleithenes,  
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Delian League   all the city states united.  
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trojan war   when people hid in a wooden horse so they could get into the city.  
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how did Greek Geography impact the interactions of Greeks and other people   1. City-States were in separate valleys2. Few roads because of the mountains3. Sea _ was the only way they could trade or communicate4. Rocky poor soil; farms didn't get too big  
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Conditions that helped launch Athen's Golden Age   The Delian League made Athens center of trade.Lots of wealthy merchants and tradersThe Delian league was an alliance of city-states to stop Persian aggression  
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Socrates   Sophist Ethics and logic"the unexamined life is not worth living."399 BC sentenced to death for "corrupting the youth of Athens"  
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Aristotle   laid the ground work for the scientific methodAlexander's tutor  
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Plato   Conversations of Socrates _ Socratic Method* he wrote the Republic, the perfect gov't would be led by a philosopher king.  
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