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ancient greece usiak
ancient greece word definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sparta | an ancient city-state in greece |
| Athens | the capital city of greece |
| knosso | an ancient town in crete where bronze age culture flourished from |
| Peloponessus | a large peninsula and region in southern greece |
| myceneans | an archaeological site greece, located about 90 km south-west of athens, in the north-eastern peloponnese |
| acropolis | a hill in athens, greece, on which many temples and archaeological sites are located. |
| Aegean Sea | an arm of the mediterranean between greece and turkey": a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of crete and greece, rome and persia |
| Minoans | a bronze age civilization, arose on the island of crete and flourished from approximately 2700 to 1450 BC. |
| Zues | is the king of the gods, the ruler of mount. olympus and the god of the sky and thunder in greek mythology |
| Mt. Olympus | a mountain peak in northeast greece near the aegean coast: believed by ancient greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods(9,570 ft. high) |
| Tojans | a citizen of ancient troy |
| monarchy | an auto cracy governed by a monarch who usaully inherits the authority |
| aristocracy | a form of government in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule |
| tyranny | a government in which a single ruler has absolute power |
| democracy | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |
| thermopylae | a location in greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity |
| alexander the great | king of macedon: conqueror of greece and egypt and persia: founder of Alexandria(356_323 BC) |
| Marathon | a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians nd their alleis defeated the persians |
| Hellenistic | relating to or characteristic of the classical greek civilatins |
| odyssey | a greek epic peom describing the journey of odysseus after the fall of troy |
| assassinate | the targeting killing of a public figure |
| barbarian | a member of an uncivilizied people |
| diffusion | the spread of social insitutions from one society to another |
| crete | the largest greek island in the mediterranean: site of the Minoan civilzation that reached its peak in 1600 BC |
| agora | the market place in ancient greece |
| Mediterranean Sea | the largest inland sea: between europe , afica, and Asia |
| lonian Sea | an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western greece and southern italy |
| trireme | anient greek or roman gallery of warship having three tiers of oars on each side |
| tribute | something given or done as an expression of esteem |
| Euclid | was a greek mathematician, ofteb referred to as the "father of geometry." |
| Achillies | a mythical greek hero of the lliad:a foremost greek warrior at the seige of troy, known as Achilles heel |
| Agamemnon | the king who lead the greeks against troy in the trojan war |
| olympics | olympic games: the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country |
| Xenophobia | a fear of foreigners or strangers |
| Aristotle | one of thr greatest of the ancient athenian philsophers |
| plato | ancient athenian philosopher: pupil of socrates: teacher of Aristotle |
| immortals | were an elite force of soldiers who fought for the acheamenid empire |
| Socrates | ancient athian philosopher |
| Archimedes | greek mathematicain and phyisicist noted for his in hydrostatics and machanics and geometry |
| doric | the dialect of anciant greek spoken in doris |
| adriatic sea | an arm of the Mediterranean |
| troy | an ancient city in asia minor that was the site of the trojan war |
| corinthian | a resident of corinth |
| lonian | a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric greeks |
| philosopher | a specialest in philosophy |
| persia | an empire in southern asia created by cyrus the great in the 6th century BC and destroyed by alexander the great in the 4th century |
| pericles | athnian statesman whose leadership contrubuted to athens politiacal and curtural supremacy in greece |
| Xerxes | a persian king of the achaemenid dynasty |
| tragedy | drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior focre of circumstance |
| assimilation | the stae of being assimilated: people of different backgrounds come to see themselves. |
| leonidas | king of sparta and hero of the batle of themopylae were he was kill by the persians |
| demeter | goddess of fertility and protector of marriage in ancient mythology |
| hera | queen of the olmpian gods in ancient greek mytholoy (also known as zueses wife) |
| parthenon | the main temple of the goddess athena: built on the acropolis in athens |
| aristocrat | a member of the aristocracy |
| darius | name of several kings in achaemenid dynasty of persia |
| amohitheater | a sloping gallery gallery with seats for spectators |
| proximity | the property of being close together |
| pythagroras | greek philosopher and mathematicain who proved the pythagorean theorm: considered to be the first true mathematician |
| erastosthenes | erastosthanes of cyrene was a greek ,mathimatician. he was the first person to use the word geography |
| hepheastus | God of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, aritsans, sculptors, metals, metallury, fire and volcanoes |
| apollo | greek god of light, god prophecy and peotry and music and healimg: son of zues and leto: twin brother of artemis |
| plague | a serios infection of rodents caused by yersiania pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infeacted animal |
| epic | epic peom: a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds |
| aphrodite | goddess love and beauty and daughter of zues in ancient mythology |
| poseidon | the god of sea and eqarthquakes in ancient mythology |
| hercules | a hero noted for hos strengh: performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality |
| lliad | a greek epic poem describing the seige of troy |
| artemis | a virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon: daughter of leto and twin sister of apolo |
| hippocrates | medical pratitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine |
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