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AA Early Greece

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Polis city-state, which is the political unit in Greece
Acropolis the typical polis
Agora marketplace, where people did business,gossiped and discussed politics
Helots slaves made by Spartans
Hoplites at age of 20 boys became foot soldiers
Hubris great prides, bought many heroes to tragic ends
Democracy a form of government run by the people
Tyrant a strongman who seized by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people
Direct Democracy which all people vote directly on an issue
Archon person who served as the chief of state for the Athens
Phalanx a tight rectangle formation which soldiers held long spears out ahead of wall of shields
Reason clear and ordered thinking
Logic the process of making inferences
Lyric poetry musical instrument called the lyre that was often played to accompany poems
Hellenistic greek-like
Solon revised the laws again in the 590s BC
Cleisthenes took over Athens
Pericles a skilled politician and gifted public speaker
Socrates interested in human life, truth, justice, and virute
Plato known natures of truth, and goodness
Aristotle third great Athenian philosophers, concerned nature
Homer wrote the odyssey and Iliad, two great epics
Herodotus lived in Greece during wars of Persia
Thucydides lived during the peloponnesian war and wrote about it in detail
Euclid formulated many ideas about geometry
Eratosthenes known for calculating size of world
Archimedes world's greatest inventors
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