Greek Vocab JG Word Scramble
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Definitions | Terms |
The art of playing | Drama |
Public marketplace where people did business,gossiped, and discussed politics | Agora |
Tight Rectangle formation used by Greek armies | Phalanx |
Spartan Slaves | Helots |
Led the second Persian invasion of Greece | Xerxes |
The richest source information about the Minoan way of life | Frescoes |
Clear and ordered thinking | Reason |
Rule by a few individuals | Oligarchy |
Philosophy that rejected pleasure,wealth,and social responsibility | Cynicism |
Conquered every major city-state in Greece expert Sparta | Phillip the second |
Considered to be the first Greeks | Mycenaeans |
Tells the story of the last year of the Trojan War | The Iliad |
Developed a harsh law code | Draco |
Egyptian who developed many geometry concepts | Euclid |
Method of learning through questions | Socratic method |
Argued that people should use reason to help them about the world | Aristotle |
Calculated the circumference of the globe | Eratosthenes |
Foot soldiers | Hoplites |
Philosophers who equated pleasure with good | Epicureans |
Made tribes,not families or social groups,the basis for elections | Cleisthenes |
Emphasize reason,self-discipline,emotional control,and personal morality | Stoies |
An alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens | Peloponnessian |
Basic political unit in Greece | polis |
Greek poet | Sappho |
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