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Achient Greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| City State | A Greek community with its traditions, government and laws |
| Hellenism | Describes Greek culture spread by Alexander the Great |
| Tragedy | a type of serious play that often ends in disaster |
| Epic | A long poem that tells a story |
| Tyranny | A government that takes power with the support of the working class, sometimes by force |
| Aristocracy | A government ruled by a few wealthy powerful families |
| Agora | A public market and meeting place |
| Socrates | Famous philosopher of Ancient Greece |
| Diffusion | The way language, customs and ideas are spread |
| Acropolis | A high rocky hill on wich early people built cities |
| Odysses | A term for a long difficult journey |
| Troy | A city located across Hellespont in Asia Minor |
| Xerxes | King of the Persian Empier who invaded Greece |
| Sparta | City known for its worriors and its frugal lifestyle |
| Helots | Spartans slaves |
| Priam | King of Troy |
| Ionic,Corintain and Doric | All examples of greek collums |
| Alexander the Great | Lived during the Classical Period: 500-336bc |
| Aristotle | The greek philosipher who taught Alexander as a boy |
| Cyclops | The one-eyed monster who Odysses faces |
| Phalanx | The milatary stradagy that Alexander used to defete larger armies |
| Minoan | The archeaologists found the ruins of on Crete that had been dystroyed by earthquakes and sunomis |
| Poseidon | The god of sea |
| Marathon | The great Athienian victory over the Persians and now an Olimpic event is named this |
| Aphrodite | The goddess of love and beauty |
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