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Classical Greece ch5
key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| polis | the city-state that became the political unit in greece |
| acropolis | the high area that a polis was built around |
| agora | like a market place |
| helots | state slaves |
| Hoplites | foot soldiers |
| hubris | great pride |
| democracy | a form of government run by the people |
| Tyrant | a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
| Solon | another law maker |
| cleisthenes | another reformer that took over athens |
| direct democracy | all people vote directly on an issue |
| archon | an elected official who served as the chief |
| phalanx | a tight rectangle formation in witch soldiers held long spears out ahead |
| Socrates | the first of the three greatest greek philosophers |
| Plato | one of socrates students wich was also a greek philosophers |
| Aristotle | the third of the greatest greek philosophers |
| reason | means clear and ordered thinking |
| logic | the process of making inferences |
| lyric poetry | named after a musical instrument called the lyre |
| Herodotus | the one who lived in Greece during the wars with Persia |
| Thucydides | lived during the peloponnesian |
| Homer | Iliad and the odyssey both attributed to a poet named homer |
| Alexander the great | Philip the II's son |
| Hellenistic | Greeklike |
| Euclid | One of the great scholars who lived in Egypt |
| Eratosthenes | Best known for calculating the size of the world |
| Archimedes | helped improve technology |
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