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Greek vocabulary OR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| drama | the art of play writing |
| agora | the public marketplace where people did business,gossiped, and discussed politics |
| antigonous | became king of Macedonia and Greece after Alexanders death |
| phalanx | tight rectangle formation used by Greeks |
| helots | spartan slaves |
| Xerxes | led the second Persian invasion of Greece |
| frescoes | the richest source of information about the Minoan life |
| reason | clear and order thinking |
| oligarchy | rule by few individuals |
| cynicism | philosophy that rejected pleasure,wealth, and social responsibility |
| Philip 11 | conquered every city-state in Greece except Sparta |
| Mycenaean | considered to be first Greeks |
| the Iliad | tells the story 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 |
| cleisthenes | made tribes, not families or social groups, the basis for election |
| stoics | empathize reason, self-discipline, emotional control, and personality morale |
| delian league | an alliance of several Greek city-states led by Athens |
| Polis | basic political unit in Greece |
| Sappho | Greek poet |