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Greek Vocab
| 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 imformation about the minoan way of life | frescoes |
| Clear and ordered thinking | reason |
| Rule by a few individuals | oilgarchy |
| Philosophy that rejected pleasure, wealth, and social responsibility | Cynicism |
| Conquered every major city-state in Greece except Sparta | Minoans |
| Considered to be the first Greeks | Mycenaeans |
| Tells the story of the last year of the Trojan War | The Iliad |
| Method of learning through questions | Socractic Method |
| Argued that people should use reason to help them learn about the world | Aristotle |
| Calculated the circumference of the globe | Eratosthenes |
| Foot Soilders | Hoplites |
| Philosophers who equated pleasure with good | Epicureans |
| Made tribes, not families or soical groups, the basis for elections | Emphasize reasons, slef-discipline, emotional control, and personal mortality |
| An alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens | Delian League |
| Basic Political unit in Greece | polis |
| Greek poet | Sappho |