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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| is a city-state,is the basic political unit in greece | polis |
| high area | acropolis |
| marketplace | agora |
| state slaves | helots |
| foot soldiers | hoplites |
| great pride | hubris |
| goverment run by the people | democracy |
| outlawed debt slavery, overturned Draco's harsh laws | solon |
| a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of all | trant |
| broke down the power of the noble familys | cleisthenes |
| people vote directly on an issue | direct democracy |
| chief of state in athens | archon |
| spear layed forwored and shilds up | plalanx |
| skilled politicain and gifted public speaker | percles |
| he ask basic ?'s to find the basic nature of life | socrates |
| he thinks that philosophers make the best decisions | plato |
| studyed the world around him | aristotle |
| clear and ordered thinking | reason |
| process of making inferences | logic |
| wrote the most famous works of literature | homer |
| deal with emotions and desires | lyric poetry |
| described major events of the wars and public debates | herodotus |
| wrote about the peloponnesion war in detail | thucydides |
| son of king Philip II he conquered much of the knowen world. | alexander the great |
| greeklike | hellenistic |