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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a citizen? | Members of a city-state who had legal rights. |
| What are politics? | The government of a city-state. |
| What is aristocracy? | A hereditary class of rulers. |
| What is slavery? | The ownership and control of other people as property. |
| What is tyranny? | Governments run by a strong ruler, |
| What is a democracy? | A government ran by the people. |
| What's citizenship? | Membership in a community. |
| What is a direct democracy? | A political system in which citizens will participate directly in the decision making. |
| What is a representative democracy? | When citizens elect others to represent them in government. |
| What is a helot? | Helots belonged not to individual Spartans but to polis as a whole. |
| What is a military state? | A society organized for the purpose of waging war. |
| What are barracks? | Military housing. |
| What is the battle of Marathon? | The unexpected Greek victory which ended the first Persian war. |
| What is the battle of Salamis? | The second defeat Greek had. |
| What is the Delian League? | The alliance between Athens and the Delos. |
| What is the Peloponnesian League? | The Spartans alliance on the Peloponnesian League? |
| What is Alexandria? | A city on the edge of the Nile Delta? |
| What is the Hellenistic culture? | A greek-like culture. |
| What is a polytheistic religion? | The belief of several different Gods. |
| What is mythology? | Stories or myths told about Gods or heroes. |
| What are the olympic games? | An athletic event which was made to honor Zeus. |
| What's the socratic method? | The question and answer method of teaching. |
| What's a hypothesis? | Logical guesses made based on information you had known beforehand. |
| What is a Hippocratic oath? | An oath that medical students must use their knowledge in only ethical ways. |