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Question | Answer |
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What does Citizen mean | legal member of a country or city-state |
What does politics mean | art and practice of government |
What does aristocracy mean | hereditary class of rulers,Greek for "rule by the best people" |
What does slavery mean | ownership and control of other people as property |
What does tyranny mean | unjust use of power,or in ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler |
What does democracy mean | form of government in which citizens hold political power |
What does direct government mean | government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs to government |
what does representative democracy mean | democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation's laws |
what does helot mean | messenian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by sparta |
what does military state mean | society organized for the purpose of waging war |
what does barracks mean | military housing |
what is the Battle of Marathon | Greek victory over the Persian army that ended the first Persian war |
what is the battle of salamis | Greek victory over the Persian navy during the second Persian war |
what is the delian league | military alliance led by Athens |
what is the Peloponnesian League | military alliance led by Sparta |
what is Alexandra | city founded by Alexander the Great in Egypt |
what is Hellenistic | the form of Greek culture that emerged after Alexander's conquests |
what is Polytheism | worship many gods or deities |
what is Mythology | collection of myths or stories that people tell about gods and heroes |
what is the olympic games | in ancient Greece,an athletic competition held every four years in honor of Zeus |
what is the socratic method | form of teaching in which the teacher asks students question after question to force them to think more clearly |
what is the hypothesis | logical guess |
what is the hippocratic oath | oath taken by medical students swearing to practice medicine in an ethical way |