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LSB Chap. 5
chapter 5 notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | city-state |
| acropolis | a high area that a typical polis was built around |
| agora | marketplace |
| helots | state slaves |
| hoplites | foot soldiers |
| hubris | great pride |
| democracy | a form of government run by the people |
| Solon | another lawmaker |
| tyrant | a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
| Cleisthenes | another reformer who took over Athens |
| direct democracy | a type of system where people vote directly on an issue |
| archon | another elected official who served as the chief of state in Athens |
| phalanx | a tight rectangular formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields |
| Pericles | a skilled politician and a gifted public speaker |
| Socrates | sought truths about broad concepts such as truth, justice, and virtue |
| Plato | thought philosophers were best suited to govern other people |
| Aristotle | pioneered the use of reason and logic to study the natural world |
| reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| logic | the process of making inferences |
| Homer | a poet who wrote epic poems |
| lyric poetry | named after a musical instrument, lyre, which was played when reading a poem. Deals with emotions and desires |
| Herodotus | the first major writer of history in Greece |
| Thucydides | a second major historian who lived in Athens |
| Alexander the Great | Phillip II's son |
| Hellenistic | Greeklike |
| Euclid | formulated many of the ideas about geometry |
| Eratosthenes | best known for calculating the size of the world |
| Archimedes | created devices to make life easier |