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Jude 6th - Chapter 4
Chapter 4: The Marvelous Greeks
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| philosopher | someone who studies wisdom |
| Hellens | what Greeks call themselves |
| Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean Seas | seas that surround Greece on 3 sides |
| The Iliad and the Odyssey | Homer's epics about the Trojan War |
| Trojan War | war between Greeks vs Trojans |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love |
| Hecktor | famous Trojan prince who was killed |
| Achilles | famous Greek hero |
| Odysseus | famous Greek warrior |
| city-state | city that acts as an independent country |
| Sparta | Greek city-state in the south known for its military |
| 7 | age that boys and girls leave home to train |
| healots | people that were captured by the Greeks and forced into slavery |
| oligarchy | political rule by a small group of people |
| monarchy | government ruled by a king or queen |
| Athens | Greek city-state in the north known for its development of democracy |
| democracy | political rule by all of the people governed |
| citizen | someone who belongs to a state and has the rights, privileges, and duties of a freeman |
| direct democracy | a government where every citizen has the right to vote |
| marathon | 26.2 miles |
| Parthenon | great temple dedicated to the goddess Athena |
| comedy and tragedy | 2 styles of drama written by the Greeks |
| Peloponnesian War | Athens vs Sparta |
| dialogue | a conversation |
| Hippocrates | known as the father of medicine who was the first person to remove suspicion away from studying the human body |
| Hippocratic Oath | oath that doctors take |
| Alexandria | city that Alexander the Great named after himself |
| Greek architecture | Dorian, Ionian, and Corinthian |
| Battle of Thermopylae | 300 brave Spartans sacrificed their lives as they fought off thousands of Persians to give the rest of Greece time to prepare for war |
| Socrates | father of western philosophy; taught his students by asking questions; sentenced to death by poison for corrupting the youth |
| Plato | studied under Socrates; author of the Republic; opened a school in Athens called the Academy |
| Aristotle | studied under Plato; opened a school called the Lyceum; tutored Alexander the Great |
| Alexander the Great | young Macedonian king who conquered Egypt, Mesopotamia, and parts of India while spreading Greek culture throughout the world |
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