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Classical Greece 1

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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 Greece city-states
Helots in ancient Greece, state slaves
Hoplites foot soldiers in ancient Greece
Hubris great pride
Democracy a government run by the people
Solon a lawmaker that overturned Draco's harshest law
Tyrant a strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people
Cleisthenes a reformer that took over Athens
Direct Democracy they 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 a skilled politician and a gifted public speaker who took credit for the rebuilding of Athens
Socrates he was the first of the great Athenian philosophers
Plato one of Socrate's students and became a great philosopher in his own right
Aristotle the third of the great philosophers, he was more concerned about the universe and the nature around him
Reason clear or ordered thinking
Logic the process of making inferences
Homer a poet
Lyric Poetry a type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre, an instrument that played while the poetry was sung
Herodotus the first major writer of history in Greece
Thucydides a second major historian
Alexander the Great the son of King Phillip II
Hellenistic the bending of Greek cultures with those of Persia, Egypt, and Central Asia following the conquests of Alexander the Great
Euclid a Greek mathematician
Eratosthenes he calculated the size of the world
Archimedes one of the ancient worlds greatest inventors
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