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Chapter 5
Key terms and people
| Term | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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-states | Agora |
| in ancient Greece, state slaves | helots |
| foot soldiers in ancient Greece | hoplites |
| Great pride | hubris |
| a government run by the people | democracy |
| A strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people | Tyrant |
| the type of governing system where all people vote directly on an issue | direct democracy |
| a chief of state of ancient Athens | Archon |
| a military formation composed of rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes or heavy spears | phalanx |
| Athenian statesman; he encountered aged the spread of democracy in Athens and the growth of the city-states power | Pericles |
| Greek philosopher of athens; his teaching style was based on asking questions. he wanted people to question their own beliefs. he was arrested and condemmned to death for challening authority | Socrates |
| A greek philosopher; a student of Socrates. he stares school in Athens called the Academy. in the republic he describes an ideal society run by philosopher- king | plato |
| Greek philosopher and student of Plato; he taught that logic was the tool for an unecessary inquiry; hislasticm ame the basis for medieval scho | Aristotle |
| clear and ordered thinking | Reason |
| the process of making inferences | Logic |
| Greek poet he wrote epic poems the Liad and the Odyssey | Homer |
| a type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre an instrument tha tplayed while the poetry was sung | Lyric poetry |
| Greek historian; his most famous work was the histories, which decrbes major events of the persian wars | Herodotus |
| king of Macedon and conqueror of much of asia ; hes considered on of the greatest generals of all times | Alexander the great |
| the blending of geek cultures with those of Persia,Egypt, central Asia follooeing the conquest of alexander the great | Hellenidtic |
| Greek geometer; he created practical books on geometric forms and mathematic. His works formed the basis for later European studies in geometry | Euclid |
| Greek astronomer and geographer ; he calculated the circumgerence of the globe using careful observations and simple geometry | Eratosthenes |
| Greek mathematicans and inventor; He was known for his work in geometry, physics, and mechanics | Archimedes |
| Greek historain of Athens he wrote the history of the pelophoponnesian war | Thucydides |
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