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Ja-Greek vocabulary.
Greek, Vocab list.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Drama | The art of play writing. |
| Agora | Public marketplace where people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics. |
| Antigonus | Became king of Macedonia and Greece after Alexandra's death. |
| Phalanx | Tight rectangle formation used by Greek armies. |
| Helots | Spartan slaves. |
| Xerxes | Led the second Persian invasion of Greece. |
| Frescoes | The richest source of information about the Minoan way of life. |
| Reason | Clear and ordered thinking. |
| Oligrachy | Rule by a few individuals. |
| Cynicism | Philosophy the rejected pleasure, wealth, and social responsibility. |
| Philip II | Conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta. |
| Mycenaeans | Considered to be the first Greeks. |
| The Lliad | Tells the story of the last year of the Trojan War. |
| Draco | Developed a harsh law code. |
| Euclid | Egyptian who developed many geometry concepts. |
| Socratic method | Method of learning through questions. |
| Aristotle | Argued that people should use reason to help them learn about the world. |
| Eratosthenes | Calculated the circumference of the globe. |
| Hoplites | Foot soldiers. |
| Epieureans | Philosophers who equated pleasure with good. |
| Cleisthenes | Made tribes, not families or social groups, the basis for elections. |
| Stoics | Emphasize reason, self-discipline, emotional control, and personal morality. |
| Delian League | An alliance of several Greek city-state led by the Athens. |
| Polis | Basic political unit in Greece. |
| Sappho | Greek poet. |