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Chap 5 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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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 |
Athenian statesman; he introduced the first civil democracy in Greece and created the Boule | Solon |
A strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people | Tyrant |
Ancient Greek ruler often called "father of democracy." He increased the size of the council that governed Athens to 500, and he reorganized Athenian tribes on a geographical rather than familial basis | 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 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-state's power | Pericles |
Greek philosopher of Athens; his teaching style was based on asking questions. He wanted people to questioned their own beliefs. He was arrested and condemned to death for challenging authority. | Socrates |
Greek philosopher; a student of Socrates, he started a school in Athens called Academy. In The Republic, he describes an ideal society run by philosopher-kings. | Plato |
Greek philosopher and student of Plato; he taught that logic was the tool for any necessary inquiry; his work later became the basis for medieval scholasticism | Aristotle |
Clear and ordered thinking | Reason |
The process of making inferences | Logic |
Greek poet, he wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, which tell stories set during and after the Trojan War | Homer |
A type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre, an instrument that played while the poetry was sung | Lyric Poetry |
Greek historian; his most famous work is The Histories, which describes major events of the Persian Wars | Herodotus |
Greek historian of Athens; he wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War. He is regarded as the first critical historian and is often ranked as the greatest historian of antiquity | Thucydides |
King of Macedon and conqueror of much of Asia; hes considered one of the greatest generals of all times | Alexander the Great |
The blending of Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, central Asia following the conquest of Alexander the Great | Hellenistic |
Greek geometer; he created practical books on geometric forms an mathematic. His works formed the basis for later European studies in geometry | Euclid |
Greek astronomer and geographer; he calculated the circumference of the globe using careful observations and simple geometry | Eratosthenes |
Greek mathematicians and inventor; He was known for his work in geometry, physics, mechanics | Archimedes |