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Key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | a city-state 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 |
| helots | In ancient Greece, state slaves |
| hoplites | Foot soldiers in ancient Greece |
| hubris | Great Pride |
| Democracy | A government ruled by the people |
| Solon | An Athenian statesman who introduced the first civil democracy in Greece and created the Boule |
| Tyrant | A strong person who rules power by force and claims to rule for the good of the people |
| Cleisthenes | A Greek ruler who is called "father of democracy" |
| Direct Democracy | the type of governing system where all people vote directly on an issue |
| Arthon | The god of nature |
| phalanx | a military formation composed of rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes or heavy spears |
| Pericles | An Athenian who encouraged the s[read of democracy in Athens and the growth of the city state power |
| Socrates | A Greek philosopher pf Athens by teaching is based on asking questions. He wants many people to asks on there own beliefs but soon was arrested and condemned to death for challenging authority |
| plato | A student of Socrates, Went to the Academy and had the ideal of society run |
| Aristotle | A student of Plato who taught logic and worked later became the basis for medieval scholasticism |
| reason | Clear and ordered thinking |
| logic | the process of making inferences |
| Homer | A Greek poetic who wrote poems that tells stories that was set during and after the Trojan war. |
| lyric poetry | A type of poetry that gained its name for lyre. |
| Herodotus | A Greek historian who makes the most famous work is "the histories" that describes events at the Persian War |
| Thucydides | A Greek Historian of Athens who wrote "The history of the Peloponnesian war" he was regarded as the first critical historian and ranked the greatest historian. |
| Alexander The Great | King of Macedon and conquered most of Asia |
| Hellenistic | A Greek culture from Persia Egypt and central Asia |
| Euclid | A Greek Geometer who was first to make Geometry. |
| Eratosthenes | An Greek astronomer and an geometer |
| Archimedes | an inventor of mathematics |
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