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JF Chap 5 Key Terms
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| polis | city-state |
| acropolis | a high area a polis was built around |
| agora | marketplace |
| helots | state slaves |
| hoplites | foot soldiers |
| Hubris | great pride |
| democracy | form of government run by the people |
| Solon | lawmaker who revised the laws, overturning Draco's harshest laws |
| tyrant | a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
| Cleisthenes | a reformer who took over Athens after Peisistratus |
| direct democracy | all people vote directly on an issue |
| archon | chief of state |
| phalanx | tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields |
| Pericles | a skilled politician and a gifted public speaker, became the most influential politician in Athens for many years, great patron of the arts |
| Socrates | first of the great Athenian philosophers, studied human behavior |
| Plato | one of Socrates's students and also became a great philosopher, studied human behavior |
| Aristotle | 3rd great philosopher, concerned with the nature of the world around him |
| reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| logic | process of making inferences |
| Homer | famous Greek poet Illiad and Odyssey |
| lyric poetry | named after the musical instrument called the lyre that was often played to accompany reading of poems, tell of feelings and emotions |
| Herodotus | first majopr writer in history in Greece |
| Thucydides | 2nd major historian, lived in Athens |
| Alexander the Okay | Macedonian rise to power was led by the king and him |
| Hellenistic | Greeklike |
| Euclid | formulated many of the ideas about geometery that we still learn about today |
| Eratosthenes | best known for calculating the size of the world |
| Archimedes | ancient world's greatest inventor |