key terms
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| polis | the city-state that became the political unit in greece
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| acropolis | the high area that a polis was built around
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| agora | like a market place
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| helots | state slaves
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| Hoplites | foot soldiers
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| hubris | great pride
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| democracy | a form of government run by the people
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| Tyrant | a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people
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| Solon | another law maker
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| cleisthenes | another reformer that took over athens
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| direct democracy | all people vote directly on an issue
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| archon | an elected official who served as the chief
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| phalanx | a tight rectangle formation in witch soldiers held long spears out ahead
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| Socrates | the first of the three greatest greek philosophers
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| Plato | one of socrates students wich was also a greek philosophers
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| Aristotle | the third of the greatest greek philosophers
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| reason | means clear and ordered thinking
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| logic | the process of making inferences
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| lyric poetry | named after a musical instrument called the lyre
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| Herodotus | the one who lived in Greece during the wars with Persia
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| Thucydides | lived during the peloponnesian
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| Homer | Iliad and the odyssey both attributed to a poet named homer
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| Alexander the great | Philip the II's son
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| Hellenistic | Greeklike
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| Euclid | One of the great scholars who lived in Egypt
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| Eratosthenes | Best known for calculating the size of the world
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| Archimedes | helped improve technology
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