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greek vocab cs
greek vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| city state | a city that functions much like an inden |
| tireme | a strong wooden ship with a battering ram |
| tyrant | a powerful individual who gained controll of a city state by appealing to the poor people |
| myth | a traditional story about gods |
| iliad | a poem written by homer telling how the greeks and the trojans battled for 10 years |
| odyssey | poem written by homer telling the story of odysseus return from the trojan war |
| city state | a city that functions much like an inden |
| tireme | a strong wooden ship with a battering ram |
| phalanx | a military formation h |
| tyrant | a powerful individual who gained controll of a city state by appealing to the poor people |
| myth | a traditional story about gods |
| iliad | a poem written by homer telling how the greeks and the trojans battled for 10 years |
| odyssey | poem written by homer telling the story of odysseus return from the trojan war |
| royal road | a road in the persian empire stretching 1,600 miles |
| phalanx | a military formation were soldiers f |
| thermopylae | a mountain were 300 spartains solders held off persain soldiers |
| marathon | marshy plane where the athenians successfully defeated an invading persain force |
| hoplite | the name of the soldier used in the battle of marathon |
| acropolis | a fortified hilltop |
| monarchy | a government ruled buy a king or queen |
| oligarchy | a government in which power is in a few people |
| democracy | a government controlled by its citizens |
| aristocracy | a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class |
| philosopher | a thinker who uses logic and reason to look at the universe |
| hellenism | a blend of Greek Macedonian Persian Egyptian and indian cultures |
| colossus rhodes | a enormous bronz hellenistic statue |
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