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chapter 5
key terms and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| city-state of ancient Greece | Polis |
| a walled high area surrounding a Polis | acropolis |
| marketplace | agora |
| foot soldiers of ancient Greece | Hoplites |
| state slaves of ancient Greece | helots |
| great pride | hubris |
| form of government run by the people | democracy |
| a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people | tyrant |
| a type of governing system where all people vote on an issue | direct democracy |
| a chief of state of ancient Athens | archons |
| a tight rectangular formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields | phalanx |
| Athenian statesman; he introduced the first civil democracy in Greece and created the boule | Solon |
| ancient Greek ruler often called the "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 family bases | Cleisthenes |
| Athenian statesman; he encouraged the spread of democracy in Athens and the growth of the city-state's power | Pericles |
| clear an ordered thinking | reason |
| the process of making inferences | logic |
| named after a musical instrument called lyre that was often played to accompany the reading of poems | lyric poetry |
| Greek philosopher of Athens;his teaching style he wanted people to question 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 atrhens called the acsdmey in the republic he describges an ideal society run by kings | Plato |
| Greek philosopher and student of Plato he taught the logic was the tool for any necessary inquiry, his work later became the basis for medieval scholasticism | Aristotle |
| Greek poet he wrote the epic poems the Illiad and the Adyessy which tells stories set during and after the trojan war | Homer |
| Greek hestorian his most famous work is the historians events of the persians describes major | Herodotus |
| Greek historian of Athens;he wrote the history of the peloponnesian. is regarded as the first critical historian and is often ranked as the greatest historian of antiquity | Thucydides |
| Greek like | Hellenistic |
| king of Macedon and conqueror of much of Asia; he is considered one of the greatest generals of all time | Alexander the great |
| Greek geometer; he created practical books on geometric forms and mathematics. his work 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 mathematician and inventor; he was known for for his work in geometry, physics, and mechanics | Archimedes |
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