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topic 6
Ancient Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Polis | Greek city-state |
| citizen | legal member of a contury or city-state |
| acropolis | "high city" in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the cities defenses' were located |
| politics | art and practice of government |
| aristocracy | hereditary class of rulers, Greek for "rule by the best people" |
| ephor | man responsible for day-to-day operation of the government in Sparta |
| helot | Messenian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by Sparta |
| military state | society organized for the purpose of waging war |
| barracks | military housing |
| tenant farmer | person who pays rent, in money or crops, to grow crops on another persons land |
| medic | foreigner in a Greek city state, often a merchant or artisan |
| slavery | ownership of control of other people as propriety |
| Battle of Marathon | Greek victory over the Persian army that ended the First Persian War |
| Battle of Salamis | Greek victory over the Persian navy during the Second Persian War |
| Delian League | Military alliance led by leaders |
| Peloponnesian League | military alliance led by Sparta |
| polythesim | wordship of many gods |
| mythology | collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and hero's |
| Olympic Games | in ancient Greece , an athletic competition held every four years in honor of Zeus |
| lyric poetry | poetic songs |
| chrous | in Ancient Greek Drama, a group of people who commented on the action of a play and advised the characters |
| Socratic Method | form of teaching in which the teacher asks students questions after question to force them to think more clearly |
| Acadamy | school of philosophy founded by Plato |
| hypothesis | logical guess |
| Hippocratic | relating to the set of professional and ethical commitments traditionally made by those entering the practice of medicine |
| sarrissa | 18 foot long Macedonian pipe |
| Hellenistic | the form of Greek culture that emerged after Alexzander's conquest |
| classical civilization | the civilization of the ancient Greeks and Romans |
| oligarchy | government in which a small group of people rule |
| phalanx | Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit |
| tyranny | unjust use of power, or in Ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler |
| democracy | form of government in which citizens hold political power |
| citizenship | legal member of a country or city-state |
| direct democracy | government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government |
| reprehensive democracy | democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nations laws |
| eventual | final |
| exclude | to shut out |
| maintain | to keep or support |
| authority | people in power |
| innovation | new ways of doing things |
| obtain | gain |
| symbolize | represented |
| pursue | to chase |
| ally | member of a alliance |
| cease | stopped |
| submission | obedience |
| reason | the power to think clearly |
| concept | idea |
| period | span of time |
| acquire | to get a hold of, obtain |
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