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Greek
2-1-13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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