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ch.5
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| city-state which became the basic political unit in Greece | polis |
| a high area a polis was built around | acroplis |
| public places below acroplis | agora |
| state slaves | helots |
| foot soldiers | hoplites |
| great pride | Hubris |
| a form of government run by the people | democracy |
| a lawmaker | solon |
| a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for good of the people | tyrant |
| people vote directly on an issue | direct democracy |
| an elected official | archon |
| a tight rectangle for formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields | phalanx |
| a man that did a lot of rebuilding of Athens | Perciles |
| one of the greateast greek philosophers | socrates |
| one of the greateast greek philosophers | plato |
| one of the greateast greek philosophers | aristole |
| clear and ordered thinking | reason |
| the process of making | logic |
| two epic poems iliad and odyssey are written by | Homer |
| a thing the greek created named after a musical instrument called the lyre | lyric poetry |
| the first major writing in greece | Herodotus |
| a second major historian likewise lived in athens | Thucydides |
| king Phillip son | Alexander the Great |
| Greeklike | hellenistic |
| among the great soldiers who lived there was | Euclid |
| Egypt was also the home of | Eratosthenes |
| the work of one gifted man | Archimedes |
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