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bt Greek
chapter 5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| polis | city-state |
| acropolis | polis built around a high area |
| agora | marketplace |
| helots | state slaves |
| hoplites | foot soldiers |
| hubris | great pride |
| democracy | form of government run by the people |
| tyrant | strongman who seized power by force |
| 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 | poems that do not tell stories |
| Hellenistic | Greeklike |
| Solon | revised the laws again in the 590s BC |
| Cleisthenes | took over Athens after Peisistratus died |
| Pericles | caused rebuilding |
| Socrates | the first great Athenian philosopher |
| Plato | one of Socrate's students |
| Aristole | third great Athenian |
| Homer | a poet |
| Herodotus | lived in Greece during the wars with Persia |
| Thucydides | lived during the Peloponnesian War |
| Alexander the Great | led the Macedonian with Philip II |
| Euclid | formulated ideas about geometry |
| Eratosthenes | calculated the size of the world |
| Archimedes | created devices to make life easier |