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Greek Vocab JG
Greek Vocabulary
| Definitions | Terms |
|---|---|
| The art of playing | Drama |
| Public marketplace where people did business,gossiped, and discussed politics | Agora |
| Tight Rectangle formation used by Greek armies | Phalanx |
| Spartan Slaves | Helots |
| Led the second Persian invasion of Greece | Xerxes |
| The richest source 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 expert Sparta | Phillip the second |
| 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 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 | Stoies |
| An alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens | Peloponnessian |
| Basic political unit in Greece | polis |
| Greek poet | Sappho |