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Topic 6: Greece
Ancient Greek
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Battle of Marathon | Greek victory over the Persian army in the first Persian war. |
| Battle of Salamis | Greek Victory over the Persian navy during the second Persian war |
| Delian League | Military alliance lead by Athens. |
| Peloponnesian League | Military alliance lead by Sparta |
| Pursue | to chase |
| ally | independent state that works good with other states |
| polis | Greek city state |
| citizen | legal member of a country or city-state |
| acropolis | the upper part of an ancient Greek city |
| politics | art and practice of government |
| aristocracy | hereditary class of rulers |
| eventual | final |
| exclude | to shut out and to keep from participating |
| oligarchy | a government which a small group of people rule |
| phalanx | Greek military formation |
| tyranny | unjust use of power |
| democracy | form of government where citizens hold power |
| maintain | to keep and support |
| lecture | a person who gives informative speech to students |
| ephor | a man responsible the day-to-day operation |
| helot | Messenian person forced to work as a lowley farmer |
| military state | society organized for wagon war |
| barracks | military housing |
| authority | the power to make decisions and rules |
| innovation | new ways of doing things |
| tenants farmer | person who pays rent in money and crops |
| metic | foreigner in Greek city-states often a merchant or artisan |
| slavery | ownership of other people |
| obtain | to get or receive something |
| symbolized | to represent |
| polytheism | belief in more than 1 god |
| mythology | collection of myth or stories |
| Olympic games | an athletic computations in Greece |
| lyric poetry | poetic songs |
| chorus | a group of people who committed on the action of the play. |
| cease | to stop |
| submission | giving control of yourself to someone else |
| Socratic method | a form of teaching in which the teacher ask questions |
| Academy | school of philosophy founded by Plato |
| hypothesis | logical guess |
| Hippocratic oath | oath taken by students swearing to practice medicine. |
| reason | the power to think clearly |
| concept | idea |
| sarissa | 18 foot long Macedonian pipe |
| Hellenistic | a form of Greek culture after alexander's conquest |
| classical civilization | the civilization of ancient greek and romans |
| period | a span of time |
| acquire | to get hold of something |
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