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chapter 5, Greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A Greek city-state. | Polis |
| A high area on which a Polis was built upon. | Acropolis |
| Marketplace. | Agora |
| State-slaves. | Helots |
| Foot soldiers | Hoplites |
| Great pride | Hubris |
| A form of government runned by the people | Democracy |
| Revised laws again in 590's. | Solon |
| A strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the food of the people | Tyrant |
| Reformer that took over Athens | Cleisthenes |
| 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 |
| Did much of the rebuilding of Athens | Pericles |
| Greek philosopher of Athens | Socrates |
| Greek philosopher | Plato |
| Greek philosopher and student of Plato | Aristotle |
| Clear and ordered thinking | Reason |
| The process of making inferences | Logic |
| A poet | Homer |
| A type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre, and instrument that played while the poetry was sun | Lyric Poetry |
| The first major writer of history in Greece | Herodotus |
| The second major historian lived in Athens | Thucydides |
| Lead the Macedonian rise to power | Alexander the Great |
| The blending of Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia following the conquests of Alexander the Great | Hellenistic |
| Greek geometer | Euclid |
| Greek astronomer and geographer | Eratosthenes |
| Made many of the greatest technology advances | Archimedes |
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