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Classical Greece717

Voc. for Chapter 5

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Polis city-state
Acropolis high area
agora marketplace
Helots state slaves
Hoplites foot soldiers
Hubris great pride
Democracy a form of government run by the people
Tyrant a strong man
Direct Democracy Type of system which 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 accompanied the reading of poems
Hellenistic greek-like
Solon Lawmaker who revised the laws again in the 590s BC, overturning Draco's harshest laws
Cleisthenes took over Athens after Peisistratus died
Pericles a skilled politician and gifted public speaker
Socrates considered by many to be the wisest man in Athens and was put on trial
Plato a great philosopher in his own right. Left behind a great number of writings that record his ideas
Aristotle the third of the great Athenian philosophers, mostly studied human behavior
Homer a poet who wrote the most famous works of Greek literature
Herodotus first major writer of history in Greece
Thucydides second major historian likewise lived in Athens
Alexander the Great only 20 when he became king, had been trained to rule almost from birth
Euclid formulated many of the ideas about geometry that we still learn about today
Eratosthenes calculated the size of Earth
Archimedes used his knowledge of mathematics and physics to create devices to make life easier
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