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History World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | City State |
| Acropolis | It housed temples |
| Agora | Market-place |
| Helots | State Slaves |
| Hoplites | Foot soliders |
| Hubris | Great Pride |
| Democracy | Goverment run by people |
| Tyrant | Strongman who seized power |
| Direct Democracy | People who vote directly on a issue |
| Archon | Chief of State for the Athens |
| Phalanx | Tight triangle formation which was used in army procedures during battle |
| Reason | Clear and order thinking |
| Logic | Making inferences |
| Lyric Poetry | Music that involved rerading poems |
| Socrates | First Athens philospher |
| Plato | Great Philospher as well as student |
| Aristotle | Scientist that was also a philospher |
| Homer | Wrote the poem Odyssey |
| Herodotus | Wrote about wars and epic battles |
| Thucydides | Wrote about the Peloponniesian War |
| Pericles | A skilled politician |
| Solon | A skilled lawmaker |
| Cliesthenes | Took over Athens |
| Alexander the Great | Was the son of Phillip II and was his son |
| Hellenstic | Greeklike |
| Euclid | Use geometry that is still used today |
| Erathosthenes | Great scientist that predict lunar eclipses |
| Archidemes | Great inventor |