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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acropolis | a walled, high area surrounding a polis |
| agora | a marketplace, where people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics |
| polis | a city-state |
| helots | state slaves |
| hoplites | foot soldiers |
| Hubris | great pride |
| tyrant | a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people |
| direct democracy | in which all people vote directly on an issue |
| archon | a chief of state of ancient Athens |
| phalanx | a tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields |
| reason | clear and ordered thinking |
| logic | the process of making inferences |
| lyric poetry | a type of poetry that gained its name from the lyre |
| How many wives did Alexander the great have? | 2 |
| How many battles did he lose? | none |
| How old was he when he became king | 20 |
| 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 |
| when you order the creation of something such as a piece of art | commission |
| What year was Alexander the Great's dad assassinated in? | 336 BC |
| What was his fathers name? | phillip II |
| Who formulated the many ideas about geometry? | Euclid |
| What did Greeks believe in? | Gods and Godesses |
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