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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a city-state of ancient Greece | Polis |
| an open area that served as a meeting place and market in early Greek city-states. | Agora |
| a walled, high area surrounding a polis | Acropolis |
| Foot solider in ancient Greece | hoplites |
| great pride | hubris |
| a government run by the people | democracy |
| strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people. | tyrant |
| all people vote on an issue | direct democracy |
| a chief of state of ancient Athens | archon |
| a military formation composed of rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes or heavy spears | phalanx |
| type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre an instrument that played while the poetry was sung | lyric poetry |
| clear and ordered thinking | reason |
| the process of making inferences | logic |
| how many wives did Alexander the Great have? | 2 |
| how many battle did he loose? | none |
| how old was Alexander when he become king? | 20 yrs |
| when did he die? | 323 BC |
| lived in Greece during the wars with Persia | Herodotus |
| lived during the Peloponnesian war and wrote about it in detail. | Thucydides |
| order the creation of something such as a piece of art | commission |
| what year was his Alexander dad assassinated? | 336 BC |
| what was his dad name? | Philip II |
| formulated many of the ideas about geometry. | Euclid |
| what did Greeks believed in? | gods & goddess |