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Chptr4 terms
definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| City- State | Polis |
| Housed temples and gods and spaces for public ceremonies | Acropolis |
| Marketplace | Agora |
| State Slaves | Helots |
| Foot soldiers | Hoplites |
| Great Pride | Hubris |
| government ran by the people | democracy |
| an Famous Athen Law maker | Solon |
| a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for good of people | Tyrant |
| Person who seized rule after Peisistratus | Cleisthenes |
| System were all people vote on a issue | direct democracy |
| person who served as chief of state | Archon |
| tight rectangle structure in which soldiers held long shields as a protection wall | Phalanx |
| a skilled politician | Pericles |
| Greek philosopher | Socrates |
| Greek philosopher #2 | Plato |
| Greek philosophers #3 | Aristotle |
| Cleared and ordered thinking | reason |
| the process of making inferences | logic |
| A poet | Homer |
| named after a instrument called a lyre which was played according to reading of poems | lyric poetry |
| The first major writer in Greek history | Herodotus |
| The second major historian who lived in Athens though | Thucydides |
| The Macedonian rise to power was led by a king named Philip the second and his son Alexander the Great | Alexander the Great |
| Greek like | Hellenistic |
| formulated many ideas still used today | Euclid |
| best known for calculating the size of the world | Eratosthenes |
| One of the worlds greatest inventors | Archimedes |