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Soc studi
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isthmus | a narrow, 6.3-km wide strip of limestone |
| Olympics | a sacred, quadrennial religious festival |
| Parthenon | an ancient Greek temple |
| Hoplites | a heavily armed citizen-soldier in ancient Greek city-states |
| Myth | a traditional, oral narrative or "speech" that explained the cosmos |
| Helots | soldiers of greek army |
| Oligarchy | rule by a small group of people |
| Hippocrates | doctor who taught that illnesses had a natural cause |
| Socrates | Greek philosopher who developed the Socratic method of teaching by asking critical thinking questions |
| Aesop | storyteller whose fables or tales had moral or ethical lessons |
| Hera | Greek goddess of children and marriage |
| Pericles | A general from Athens, noted for building the Parthenon. Under his leadership |
| Herodotus | foot soldiers of the Greek army |
| Pythagoras | Greek mathematician who introduced Pythagorean’s theorem used in geometry |
| Plato | student of Socrates who found the first university or academ |
| Athens | best known of the city-states of ancient Greece, recognized for its contributions to the arts and sciences |
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