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Chapter 5 Greece
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polis | a city-state |
| Acropolis | a high area |
| Agora | marketplace |
| Helotss | state slaves |
| Hoplites | foot soldiers |
| Hubris | great pride |
| Democracy | a form of government run by the people |
| Tyrant | a strongman 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 Poetry | a type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre, an instrument that played while the poetry was sung |
| Hellenistic | Greek-like |
| Socrates | The first of the great Athenian philosophers. He was interested in broad concepts of human life, such as truth, justice, and virtue. |
| Plato | One of Socrate's students, became a great philosopher in his own right. He left behind a great number of writings that record his ideas about the nature of goodness and truth for the ideal government. His most famous work is the Republic. |
| Aristotle | The third philosopher. He was very concerned with the nature of the world around him. |
| Homer | The poet who wrote the two most famous epic poems of Greek literature, the Illiad and the Odyssey. |
| Herodotus | The first major writer of history in Greece. In his most famous work, The Histories, he described major events of wars, battles, and debates. |
| Thucydides | A major historian that lived in Athens who lived during the Peloponnesian War and wrote about it in detail. |
| Alexander the Great | Being 20 years old when he became king, he took over the kingdom after his father, Philip II, was killed. |