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Ancient Greece adc
Question | Answer |
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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. |