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Ancient Greece adc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | center of daily life and culture for the ancient Greeks. |
| Acropolis | Housed temples for gods and spaces for public ceremonies |
| Agora | The marketplace |
| helots | state slaves |
| hoplites | foot soldiers |
| Hubris | Heros of ancient myths, great pride. |
| democracy | A form of government run by the people. |
| direct democracy | A system where all people vote directly on an issue. |
| Archon | An elected official who served as the cheif of state. |
| phalanx | A tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of sheilds. |
| Reason | Clear and ordered thinking |
| logic | the process of making inferences. |
| Lyric poetry | deals with emotions and and desires |
| Hellenistic | Meaning greeklike |
| Archimedes | one of the world's greatest inventor. |
| Oligarchy | a city-state ruled by a few indivuals. |
| Eratosthenes | best known for calculating the size of the world |
| tyrant | a sstrongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people. |
| Euclid | formulated many of the ideas about geometry that we still learn about today. |
| Alexandria | the greatest city of the Hellenistic world. |
| irrelevant | not appropriate or related to the subject. |