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Golden Age of Greece
Chapter 29 of Vocab. SS
Term | Definition |
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Golden Age | A period of great peace and wealth. |
Pericles | He was a great leader when the Athens came back home. |
Acropolis | The hill above a greek city-state on which temples were built. |
Partnenon | The temple honoring the goddess Athena, built on the Acropolis above Athens. |
Myth | A traditional story that helps to explain a cultures belifs. |
Architecture | That of designing buildings. |
Sculpture | The art of creating three- dimensional figures from such materials as wood,stone, and clay |
Socrates | A public speaker about his beliefs. |
Plato | He was a student of Socrates. |
Panathenaic Games | A entertainment for watching men do chariot racing and racing |
Olympics | To honor the gods Zeus called the Olympics. The games were important to the Greeks. Its showed the athletes safety of traveling. |