Is the basic political unit in Greece.

It usually housed temples to the gods and spaces for public ceremonies.

It was were people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics.

Great pride and brought many heroes to tragic ends.

A form of government run by the people.

Revised the laws again in the 590s BC, overturing Draco's harshest laws.

A strongman who seized power by force and claimaed to rule for good of the people.

After Peisistratus dies another one reformers. They took over Athens.

It is a system that which people vote directly on an issue.

Is which who servesas chief of state in Athens.

It is a tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields.

The rebuilding of Athens was due to one man that man is Pericles.

Greek philosopher of Athens; his teaching style was based on asking question.

Greek philosopher; a student pf Socrates, he started a school in Athens called the Academy.

Greek philosopher and student of Plato.

Means clear and ordered thinking.

The process of making infernces.

Greek poet, he wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Named after a musical instruments called the lyre that was often played to accompany the reading of pomes.

Greek historian; his most famous work is The Histories

Greek historians of Athens; he wrote The history of the peloponnesian war.

King of Macedon and conqueror of much of Asia.

The blending of Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, and central Asia.

Greek goemeter; he created practical books on geometric froms and mathematics.

Greek astronomer and geographer; he calculated the cicrumfrence of the globle using careful observation and simple geometry.

Greek mathematiction and invetor.

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Question	Answer
Polis	Is the basic political unit in Greece.
Acropolis	It usually housed temples to the gods and spaces for public ceremonies.
Agora	It was were people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics.
Helots	Means slaves.
Hoplites	That is foot soldiers.
Hubris	Great pride and brought many heroes to tragic ends.
Democracy	A form of government run by the people.
Solon	Revised the laws again in the 590s BC, overturing Draco's harshest laws.
Tyrant	A strongman who seized power by force and claimaed to rule for good of the people.
Cleithenes	After Peisistratus dies another one reformers. They took over Athens.
Direct democracy	It is a system that which people vote directly on an issue.
Archon	Is which who servesas chief of state in Athens.
Phalanx	It is a tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields.
Pericles	The rebuilding of Athens was due to one man that man is Pericles.
Socrates	Greek philosopher of Athens; his teaching style was based on asking question.
Plato	Greek philosopher; a student pf Socrates, he started a school in Athens called the Academy.
Aristotle	Greek philosopher and student of Plato.
Reason	Means clear and ordered thinking.
Logic	The process of making infernces.
Homer	Greek poet, he wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Lyric poetry	Named after a musical instruments called the lyre that was often played to accompany the reading of pomes.
Herodotus	Greek historian; his most famous work is The Histories
Thucydides	Greek historians of Athens; he wrote The history of the peloponnesian war.
Alexander the great	King of Macedon and conqueror of much of Asia.
Hellenistic	The blending of Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, and central Asia.
Eucild	Greek goemeter; he created practical books on geometric froms and mathematics.
Eratosthenes	Greek astronomer and geographer; he calculated the cicrumfrence of the globle using careful observation and simple geometry.
Archimedes	Greek mathematiction and invetor.

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