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Chpt4Greek
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a city-state which became the basic political unit in Greece | polis |
| a high are where a polis was built | acropolis |
| agora | marketplace where people did business,gossiped,and discussed politics |
| helots | state slaves |
| hoplites | foot soldiers entered in at age 20 and allowed to be out after ten years |
| Hubris | (great pride)brought many to heroes to tragic ends |
| democracy | a form of government run by the people |
| tyrant | a strongman who seized power |
| Cleisthenes | took over Athens after Peisistratus |
| direct democracy | a system in which all people vote directly on an issue |
| archon | an elected official who served as the chief of state in both Athens |
| Phalanx | a tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields |
| Socrates Plato Aristole | The great Greek philosophers |
| Reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| logic | the process of making inferences |
| Homer | creator of the poems Odyssey ond Iliad |
| lyric poetry | named after the instrument lyre that was played with the poems |
| Herodotus | first major writer of history in Greece |
| Thucydides | second major historian |
| Alexander The Great | Son of Phillip II |
| Hellenistic | meaning for "Greek Like" |
| Euclid | a scholar who formulated many of the ideas about geometry |
| Eratosthenes | best known for calculating the size of the world |
| Archimedes | one of the ancient worlds greatest inventors |