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World History Chapter 8 Study Guide on Greek Civilization

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religious   Through mythology, the Greek people expressed their__________ beliefs.  
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Homer   This Greek poet wrote several epic poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad.  
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comedy and tragedy   What are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals?  
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Sophocles   The three best-known dramatists who wrote Greek tragedies were Aeschylus, Euripides, and  
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Ionic   The three types of columns the Greeks used in their buildings were Doric, Corinthian, and  
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epic   a long poem about heroic deeds  
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fable   a short tale that teaches a lesson  
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oracle   a priest or priestess who could tell the future  
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myth   a traditional story about gods and goddesses  
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oral tradition   the custom of passing along stories by speech  
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Pythagoras   This philosopher taught that the universe was governed by the same laws as music and numbers.  
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philosophy   This word means "love of wisdom"  
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Aristotle   After he compared 158 governments to find the best one, who wrote the book Politics?  
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Herodotus   Who is considered to be the “father of history”?  
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Plato   student of Socrates who wrote the Republic  
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philosophers   thinkers who created new bodies of knowledge through teaching subjects such as history, political science, biology, and logic  
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Thucydides   considered to be the greatest historian of the ancient world  
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Sophist   a traveling professional teacher  
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Socratic Method   a way of teaching by asking questions that is still used today  
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Demosthenes   Which public speaker said that the Macedonian king Philip II was considered a threat to Greek freedom?  
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Granicus   Alexander and his army of 40,000 Greek and Macedonian soldiers, including cavalry units, defeated an army of Persians in modern-day northwestern Turkey in the Battle of  
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Darius III   Alexander’s main enemy, the king of the Persians, was  
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fought   After his death, Alexander’s empire fell apart because his generals did this.  
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Greek   In Hellenistic kingdoms, government business was conducted in which language?  
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Hellenistic Era   a time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek people  
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Alexander the Great   became king of Macedonia at age 20  
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Phillip II   Macedonian admirer of Greek ideas who planned to conquer Persia  
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Alexandria   founded by Alexander in Egypt  
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legacy   what a person leaves behind when he or she dies  
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library   Alexandria was the Greek capital of Egypt, and was most famous among scholars for its  
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Alexandria   Hellenistic kings wanted which city to serve as a cultural model for all other cities?  
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Hippocrates   Who is known as “the father of medicine”?  
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Aristarchus   The Greek scientist who concluded that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the Earth revolves around the Sun, was  
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pi   Archimedes, a scientist, mathematician, and inventor, is best known in the field of mathematics for this  
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Eratosthenes   the astronomer who concluded that Earth is round  
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Stoicism   Happiness comes from doing your duty and following reason, not emotion.  
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plane geometry   a type of mathematics that relates points, lines, surfaces, and angles to one another  
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solid geometry   a type of mathematics that deals with spheres and cylinders  
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Epicureanism   Happiness through moderate pleasure and freedom from fear and pain is the goal of life.  
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