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chapter 5,
chapter 5,greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a greek city-state. | polis |
| a high area on witch a polis was built upon. | arcopolis |
| marketplace | agora |
| state-slaves | helots |
| foot soldiers | hoplites |
| great pride | hubris |
| a form of goverment runned by the people | democracy |
| revised laws again in 590 | solon |
| a strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good 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 |
| Greek poet; he wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, which tell stories set during and after the Trojan War | Homer |
| A type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre, and instrument that played while the poetry was sun | Lyric Poetry |
| Greek historian; his most famous work is The Histories, which describes major events of the Persian War. | Herodotus(P) |
| Greek historian of Athens; he wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War. He is regarded as the first critical historian and is often ranked as the greatest historian of antiquity | Thucydides(P) |
| King of Macedon and conqueror or much of Asia; his is considered one of the greatest generals of all time | Alexander the Great(P) |
| the blending of Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, and central Asia following the conquest of Alexander the Great | Hellenistic(P) |
| Greek geometer; he created practical book on geometric forms and mathematics. His work formed the basis for later Europeans studies in geometry. | Euclid(P) |
| Greek astronomer and geographer; he calculated the circumference of the globe using carful observation and simple geometry | Eratosthenes(P) |
| Archimedes(P) |
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