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Ancient Greece vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| eventual | final |
| polis | city-state |
| citizens | legal member of a country or city-state |
| acropolis | high city |
| politics | the art and practice of government |
| aristocracy | a hereditary class of rulers |
| excluded | to shut out, keep from participating |
| oligarchy | political power is held by a small group of people |
| phalanx | a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit |
| maintain | to keep and support |
| tyranny | a government run by a strong ruler |
| democracy | rule by the people |
| Citizenship | membership in a community |
| lecturer | person who gives an informative talk to students |
| direct democracy | government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government |
| representative democracy | citizens elect others to represent them in government |
| ephor | responsible for the day-to-day operation of the government |
| helot | a slave to the polis |
| military state | a society organized for the purpose of waging war |
| barracks | military housing |
| authority | people in power |
| innovation | new ways of doing things |
| tenant farmer | someone who paid rent, either with money or crops |
| metic | a Greek from another city-state or someone who was not a Greek |
| slavery | the ownership and control of other people as property |
| obtained | gained |
| symbolized | represented |
| Battle of Marathon | the unxpected Greek victory |
| polytheism | the worship of many gods |
| mythology | the collection of myths and stories that people tell about their gods and heroes |
| olympic games | the most famous sports event |
| ceased | stopped |
| iyric poetry | short poetry |
| chorus | |
| submission | obedience |
| reason | the power to think clearly |
| socratic method | a question-and-answer method of teaching |
| academy | a school of higher learning |
| hypothesis | logical guess |
| concept | idea |
| hippocratic oath | medical students promised to use their knowledge only in ethical ways |
| sarissa | macedonian pike |
| hellentistic | Greek-like |
| period | span of time |
| acquire | to get hold of, obtain |
| classical civilization | Greco-Roman |
| pursue | to chase |
| battle of salamis | broke persian naval power |
| ally | member of an alliance |
| delian league | athens alliance |
| peloponnesian league | the spartans alliance |
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