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Chap. 5shantel
Greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | city or state, which became basic political unit in Greece |
| Acropolis | housed temples to the gods and spaces for public ceremonies |
| Agora | marketplace where people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics |
| Helots | states slaves |
| Hoplites | foot soldiers |
| Hubris | great pride that brought many heroes to tragic ends |
| Democracy | form of government run by the people |
| Tyrant | strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
| Direct Democracy | all people vote directly on an issue |
| Archon | served as the chief of state in Athens |
| Phalanx | tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields |
| Reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| Logic | process of making inferences |
| Lyric Poetry | named after a musical instrument called the lyre that was often played to accompany the reading of poems |
| Hellenistic | Greek like |
| Cleisthenes | took over Athens |
| Solon | revised the laws again in the 590s BC, overturning Draco's harshest laws |
| Socrates | was the first of the great Athenian philosophers |
| Plato | one of Socrates's students, left behind a great number of writings that record his ideas |
| Aristotle | was more concerned with the nature of the world around him |
| Herodotus | the first major writer of history in Greece |
| Thucydides | lived during the Peloponnesian War and wrote about it in detail |
| Euclid | formulated many of the ideas about geometry that we still learn about today |
| Eratosthenes | best known for calculating the size of the world |
| Archimedes | one of the ancient world's greatest inventors, used mathematics and physics to create devices to make life easier |