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Greek
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Question | Answer |
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Polis | a city-state of ancient Greece |
acropolis | a walled,high area surrounding a polis |
agora | an open area that served as a meeting place and market in early Greek city-states |
helots | in ancient Greece,state slaves |
hoplites | foot soldiers in ancient Greece |
hubris | great pride |
democracy | a government run by the people |
Tyrant | a strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
direct democracy | the type of governing system where all people vote directly on an issue |
archon | a chief of state of ancient Athens |
phalanx | a military formation composed of rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes or heavy spears |
Pericles | Athenian Statesman |
Socrates | Greek philosopher of Athens |
Plato | Greek philosopher; student of Socrates |
Aristotle | Greek philosopher and student of Plato |
Reason | clear and ordered thinking |
logic | the process of making inferences |
Homer | Greek poet |
lyric poetry | a type of poetry that gained it's name from the lyre,an instrument that played while they poetry was sung |
Herodotus | Greek historian |
Thucydides | Greek historian of Athens |
Hellenistic | the blending of Greek cultures with those of Persia,Egypt,and central Asia following the conquests of Alexander the Great |
Euclid | Greek Geometer |
Eratosthenes | Greek astronomer and geographer |
Archimedes | Greek mathematician and inventor |