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Ancient Greek 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Battle of Marathon | -Greek victory over the Persion army ended the First Persian War |
| Battle of Salamis | Greek victory over the Persian navy during the Second Persian War |
| Delian League | Military led by Athens |
| Peloponnesian League | Military alliance led by Sparta |
| polytheism | worship of many gods or deities |
| mythology | collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and heroes |
| Olympic games | In ancient Greece, and athletic competition held every four years in honor of Zeus |
| lyric poetry | Poetic songs |
| chorus | 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 question after question to force them to think more clearly |
| Academy | school of philosophy founded by Plato |
| hypothesis | logical guess |
| Hippocratic oath | oath taken by medical students swearing to practice medicine in an ethical way |
| sarisa | 18-foot-long Macedonian pike |
| Hellenistic | The form of Greek culture that emerged after Alexander’s conquests |
| classical civilization | -the civilization of the Greeks and Romans |