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Ancient Greece
Question | Answer |
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Dorian | A member of a group of people who migrated into the Greek mainland |
Polis | a city-state of ancient Greece |
aristocracy | a government ruled by a small group of noble families |
tyrant | a powerful ruler who gained control of a city-state's government by asking the common people for support |
philosopher | a thinker who uses logic and reason to explore life's important questions |
Macedonia | Kingdom located just north of Greece; ended up taking over Sparta and Greece |
Alexandria | an Egyptian city that was the center of Hellenistic culture |
Socrates | a Greek thinker who explored truth and justice and developed a method of questioning answering |
democracy | a government by the people, for the people, and of the people |
monarchy | a government ruled by a king or a queen |
helot | a peasant forced to stay on the land and work |
direct democracy | form of government in which citizens rule directly |