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Chapter 5 SH
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | city-state |
| Accopolis | high area |
| Agora | market-place |
| Helots | state slaves |
| Hoplites | foot soldiers |
| Hubris | great pride |
| Democracy | a form of government run by the people |
| Tyrant | a strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
| Direct Democracy | a system in which all people vote directly on an issue |
| Archon | an elected official who served as the chief of state in Athens |
| Phalanx | a tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields |
| Reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| Logic | the process of making inferences |
| Lyric Pottery | a type of pottery that gained its name from the lyre, an instrument that played while the poetry was sung |
| Hellenistic | Greeklike |