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Ancient Greece Vocab
WH "Honors"
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Mycenaeans | Indo_ Europeans who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C. |
| Trojan War | Thought to be completely fictional, fought around 1200 B.C., in which an army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trade city of Troy in Anatolia |
| Dorians | A Greek- spaeking people that, accroding to tardition, migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization. |
| Homer | The greatest story teller, according to Greek tradition. The Trjan Wars were the backstop for his two great epics The Iliad and The Odyssey. |
| Epics | Long narrative poems celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes. |
| Myths | Traditional stories about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural word or the custims and beliefs of a society. |
| Polis | A Greek city-state- the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C. |
| Acropolis | A fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city. |
| Monarchy | A government in which power is in the hands of a king or queen. |
| Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility. |
| Oligarchy | A government in which power is in the hands of a few people-especially one in which rule is based on wealth. |
| Phalanx | A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields. |
| Tryants | In ancient Greece, a powerful individual who gained control of a city-state's government by appealing the poor for support. |
| Helots | in th esociety of ancient Sparta, peasant bound to the land. |
| Democracy | A governtment controlled ny it's citizens, either directly or through representatives. |
| The Persian Wars | A series of wars in the fifth century B.C. in which the Greek city-states battled the Persain Empire. |
| Direct Democracy | A democracy in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives. |
| Classical Art | The art of ancient Greece and Rome, in which harmony, order, and balance were emphasized. |
| Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character. |
| Comedy | A humorous for of drama that often includes slapstick and satire. |
| Peloponnesian War | A war, lasting from 431 to 404 B.C. in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies. |
| Philosophers | Thinkers who use logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe human society, and morality. |
| Socrates | He believed that absolute standards did exsist for truth adn justice. He encouraged Greeks to go further adn question themselves and their moral character. |
| Plato | In his most famous work. The Republic, he sets forth his vision of a perfectly governed society. In his society, people would fall into three groups: farmers adn artisnas |
| Mycenaeans | Indo_ Europeans who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C. |
| Trojan War | Thought to be completely fictional, fought around 1200 B.C., in which an army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trade city of Troy in Anatolia |
| Dorians | A Greek- spaeking people that, accroding to tardition, migrated into mainland Greece after the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization. |
| Homer | The greatest story teller, according to Greek tradition. The Trjan Wars were the backstop for his two great epics The Iliad and The Odyssey. |
| Epics | Long narrative poems celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes. |
| Myths | Traditional stories about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural word or the custims and beliefs of a society. |
| Polis | A Greek city-state- the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 B.C. |
| Acropolis | A fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city. |
| Monarchy | A government in which power is in the hands of a king or queen. |
| Aristocracy | A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility. |
| Oligarchy | A government in which power is in the hands of a few people-especially one in which rule is based on wealth. |
| Phalanx | A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields. |
| Tryants | In ancient Greece, a powerful individual who gained control of a city-state's government by appealing the poor for support. |
| Helots | in th esociety of ancient Sparta, peasant bound to the land. |
| Democracy | A governtment controlled ny it's citizens, either directly or through representatives. |
| The Persian Wars | A series of wars in the fifth century B.C. in which the Greek city-states battled the Persain Empire. |
| Direct Democracy | A democracy in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives. |
| Classical Art | The art of ancient Greece and Rome, in which harmony, order, and balance were emphasized. |
| Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character. |
| Comedy | A humorous for of drama that often includes slapstick and satire. |
| Peloponnesian War | A war, lasting from 431 to 404 B.C. in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies. |
| Philosophers | Thinkers who use logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe human society, and morality. |
| Socrates | He believed that absolute standards did exsist for truth adn justice. He encouraged Greeks to go further adn question themselves and their moral character. |
| Plato | In his most famous work. The Republic, he sets forth his vision of a perfectlygoverned society. In his society, people would fall into three groups: farmers adn artisnas, warriors, and the ruling class |
| Aristotle | he questioned the nature of the world and human of belief, thought, and knowledge. He invented a method for arguing according to rules of logic, which he later applied to problems in the fields of science, physics, and biology. |
| Macedonia | An ancient kingdom morth of Greece, whos ruler Philip II conquered Greece in 338 B.C. |
| Demosthenes | An Athenian orator who tried to warn the Greeks of the threat Philip and his army posed. He urged them to unite against him. |
| Alexander the Great | Philip's son immediately proclaimed himself king of Macedonia after Philip's death. |
| Darius III | The persian king who vowed to crush rhe Macedonians, he raised a huge army of between 50,000-75,000 mean to face the Macedonians near Issus |
| Hellenistic | Relates to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great adn to the late second century B.C. |
| Alexandria | An african city that became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization |
| Euclid | A highly regarded mathematician who opened a shcool of geometry in Alexandria. His best know book, The Elements, contained 465 carefully presented geometry propostions and proof. |
| Archimedes | An important Hellenistic scientist that studies in Alexandria. He accurately estimated the value of pi- the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He also explained the law of the lever and invented the compound pulley to lift heavy objects. |
| Colossus of Rhodes | An enormous Hellenistic statue that formally stood near the harbor of Rhodes. |
| Pericles | Statesman who tried to unite the country under leadership of Athens, also promoting democracy in Athens. His rules known as the Golden Age of Greece. |
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