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alisha Chapter 5

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Polis A city-state in ancient Greece.
Acropolis a typical polis was built around a high area.
Agora marketplace where people did businesses, gossiped, and discussed politics.
Helots state slaves.
hopites foot soldiers.
Hubris great pride, brought many heroes to tragic ends.
Democracy form of government run by the people.
tyrant strongman who seized power by by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people.
direct democracy all people vote direct on an issue.
archon who served as the chief of state in Athens
phalanx a tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields.
reason clear and ordered thinking.
logic the process of making inferences.
Lyric Poetry named after a musical instrument call lyre that was often played to accompany the reading of any poems.
Hellenistic troians called it Greeklike
Solon revised the laws again in 590's BC overturning Draco's harshest laws.
Cleisthenes took over Athens
Socrates born in mid 400's BC, first of the great Athenian philosophers.
Plato one of Socrates students, became a great philosopher in his own right.
Aristotle the third philosopher.
Herdotus described major events of the war.
Thudcydidies lived during the war and wrote about in it details.
Euclid was formulated many of the ideas about geometry that we still learn today.
Erathosthenes know for calculating the size of the earth.
Archimedes one of the ancient worlds greatest inventors, used his knowledge of mathematics and physics to create devices to make life easier.
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