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Greek
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The art of playwriting | drama |
| Public marketplace where people did business, gossiped,and discussed politics | agora |
| Became king of Macedonia and Greece after Alexander's death | Antigonus |
| Tight rectangle formation 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 |
| Conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta | Philip II |
| 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 | Aristotle |
| Calculated the circumference of the globe | Eratosthenes |
| Foot soldiers | hoplites |
| Philosophers who equated pleasure with good | Epicureans |
| Made tribes, not families or social groups, the basis for elections | Cleisthenes |
| Emphasize reason, self-discipline, 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 |