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Chapter 5 Vocab !
Key Terms & People
| Question | 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 lawmaker who revised the laws again in the 590s BC, overturning Draco's harshest laws? | Solon |
| a strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people? | Tyrant |
| a reformer who took over Athens? | Cleisthenes |
| 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 information composed of rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes or heavy spears? | Phalanx |
| a skilled politician and a gifted public speaker, who was elected on of the city's generals in the 460s BC and was re-elected many times? | Pericles |
| born in the mid-400s BC, one of the first of the great Athenian philosophers? | Socrates |
| one of Socrates students, became a great philosopher in his own right? | Plato |
| studied at the academy, the third of the great Athenian philosophers? | Aristotle |
| clear and ordered thinking? | Reason |
| the process of making inferences? | Logic |
| A poet, who had told stories through poems? | Homer |
| a type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre, an instrument that played while the poetry was sung? | Lyric Poetry |
| the first major writer of history in Greece, who lived in Greece during the wars with Persia? | Herodotus |
| lived in Greece during the wars with Persia? | Thucydides |
| the son of the a king named Phillip II? | Alexander the Great |
| the blending to Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia following the conquests of Alexander the Great? | Hellenistic |
| a scholar , who formulated many of the ideas about geometry that we will still learn about today? | Euclid |
| he is best known for calculating the size of the world? | Eratosthenes |
| one of the worlds greatest inventors? | Archimedes |
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