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Greek Vocabulary BB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The art of playwriting | Drama |
| Public marketplace where people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics | Agora |
| Became king of MacedoniaTight and Greece after Alexander's death | Antigonus |
| Tight rectangle xformation used by Greek armies | Phalanx |
| Spartan Slaves | Helots |
| Led the second Persian invasion of Greece | Xerxes |
| The richest source of information about the Minoan way of life | Frescoes |
| Clear and ordered thinking | Reason |
| Rule by a few individuals | Oligarchy |
| Philosophy that rejected pleasure, wealth, and social responsibility | Cynicism |
| Conqured every major city-state in Greece except Sparta | Phillip 2 |
| Considered to be the first Greeks | Mycenaeans |
| Tells the story of the last year of the Trojan War | The Iliad |
| Developed a harsh law code | Draco |
| Egyptian who developed many geometry concepts | Euclid |
| Method of learning through questions | Socratic Method |
| Argued that people should use reason to help them learn about the world | Aristole |
| Calculated the circumfrence of the globe | Eartosthenes |
| Foot Soldiers | Hoplites |
| Philosophers who equated pleasure with God | Epicureans |
| Made tribes, not families or social groups, the basis for elections | Cleisthenes |
| Emphasize reason, self-disipline, emotional control, and personal morality | Stoics |
| An alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens | Delian League |
| Basic political unit in Greece | Polis |
| Greek Poet | Sappho |