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Unit 3 -Chapter 6
Greek Civilization - 2000 B.C to 323 B.C.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A period of hundred years | Century |
| Brave and bold | Heiorc |
| to attack suddenly; a surprise attack | Raid |
| A hill on which the people ijn a Greek city built their main temple | Acropolis |
| A member of the powerful ruling class | Aristocrat |
| Self-giverning, separate, free | Independent |
| The Greek name for a city-state | Polis |
| A place where people present plays | Theater |
| Rule by the poople | Democracy |
| A leader who rules by force and not by law | tyrant |
| A meeting; a group of people who meet to pass laws | Assembly |
| A type of government in which each citizen votes on everything | Direct democracy |
| A system of picking names for a container so that each person has an equalchance of veing chosen | Lottery |
| Having to do with government; having to do with people | Public |
| to choose leaders and pass laaews | Vote |
| To pay somenoe to do something a certain way | Bribe |
| A group who listens to court cases and decides what is right | Jury |
| To force people to become slaves | Enslave |
| A slave in Sparta | Helot |
| To move from one place to another | Migrate |
| The art of building | Architecture |
| Loyal toward one's country; love for one's country | Patriotic |
| A group of ships | Fleet |
| To have more soldiers, ships, or war machines than someone else | Outnumber |
| Being free; being able to govern one's self | Independence |
| To move around | Manuever |
| A tall, solid structure used to support a building; a pollar | Column |
| A woman god | Goddess |
| A group of actors who stand on stage and talk about what is happening in a greek play | Chorus |
| A type of Greek play in which the writier makes fun of important people | Comedy |
| A type of Greek play in which the hero has too much pride and is defeated in the end | Tragedy |
| A person who seeks answers to what is true and what is good | Philosopher |
| The study of the stars | Astronomy |
| The study of living things | Biology |
| The study of what is good and bad | Ethics |
| The study of how to think | Logic |
| The study of matter | Physics |
| The study of government | Politics |
| The blend of western and eastern cultures made possible b Alexander the Great | Hellenism |
| Ths study of the measurement fo flat and round things | Geometry |
| The time between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C. when Greek culture influenced the world | Hellenistic Age |
| A wheel for a rope to pass over | Pulley |