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Ancient Greece vocab
Term | Definition |
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Citizenship | rights and responsibilities |
Direct Democracy | styl of democrocy that works for smaller populations like Athens |
Representative democracy | citezens elect represenitves to represent them in govern ment and the make all he major desitions. |
Barracks | millitary housing for 7 year old spartan boys to be trwained for war. |
The Pyrrhic dance | A famous war dance the solders did before war. |
Hoplite | A greek foot solder |
Hoplon | the name of the sheild the hoplites carried in to war |
Phlanx | a rectangular millitary formation |
Doru | a spear that was used by the hoplites that is 7 to 9 feet long |
Corinthian Helmet | its name from the city-state of Corinth it as made of Bronze which in its later styles covered the entire head and neck with slits for eyes and mouth. |
Agora | a public and open space for markets and visitors. |
Polis | Greek word for city-state |
Acropolis | A high hill upon which a greek fortress was built |
Classical age | an age marked by great greek achievements |
Mythology | Stories about gods and heroes that tries to explain how the world works |
persian war | a series of wars between athens and sparta |
peloponnesian war | a war between Athens and sparta in the 400s B.C. |
Trojan war | the ten year war waged against troy be the Greeks caused b caused by the abduction of helen by paris and resulting in the burning and destruction of troy. |
Hellenistic | Greek like heavily influenced by greek ideas. |
colonization | the act or process of establishing a colony or colonies |
philosophy | a set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field of theory |
parthenon | built as a temple for athena goddess of wisdom and strategy |
Tenant farmer | people who paid rent wither in money or crops to grow crops on another persons land Tenant farmers in ancient Greece were called thetes |
Democracy | greek formed style of government |