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tp greek vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| drama | the art of playeriting |
| agora | public marketplace where peopl did business, gossiped, and discussed politics |
| antigonus | became king of macedonia and greece after alexander's death |
| phalanx | tight rectangle formation used by greek armies |
| hetlots | spartan slaves |
| darius | led the secound persian invasion of greece |
| frescoes | richest source of information about the minoan way of life |
| reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| oligarchy | rule by a few individuals |
| cynicism | philophy that rejected pleaser, wealth, and social responsibility |
| philip II | conquered every major city-states in greece exept sparta |
| mycenaens | considered to be the first greeks |
| the iliad | tells the story of the last year of the trojan war |
| draco | developed a harsh law code |
| euclid | egyptian who developed many geometry concepts |
| socraticmethod | method of learning through questions |
| aristotle | arqued that people should use to help them learn about the world |
| eratosthenes | calculated the circumference of the globe |
| hoplites | foot soldiers |
| epicureans | philosophers who equeted pleasure with good |
| sappho | greek poet |
| polis | basic political unit in greece |
| peloponnesian league | an alliance of serveral greek city-state led by athens |
| stiocs | emphasize reason, self-discpline, emotional control,and personal morality |
| cleisthenes | made tribs, not families or social groups, the bais for elections |