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Chapter 5
Key terms and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Democracy | A government run by the people |
| Tyrant | A strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people. |
| Polis | City-state. |
| Acropolis | A walled high area surrounding a polis |
| Agora | An open area that served as a meeting place and market in the early Greek city-states. |
| Plato, sucrates, aristotle | Three greek philosiphers. |
| Alexander the great. | The son of Phillip II. He created a huge area. the biggest anyone had ever seen. |
| Helots | State slaves. |
| Hoplites | Foot soldiers. |
| Hubris | Great pride. |
| Direct Democracy | in which all people vote directly on an issue. |
| Archon | Served as the chief of state in Athens. |
| Phalanx | A tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of sheilds. |
| Logic | The process of making inferences. |
| reason | Clear and ordered thinking. |
| Lyric poetry | Named after a musical instrument called the lyre that was often played to accompany the reading of poems. |
| Homer | A poet who made the famous poems Odyssey and Iliad. |
| Hereodotus | The first major writer of history in greece |
| Thucydides | A second major historian likewise lived in athens. |