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6th Ancient History Final Exam Chapters eight nine and ten

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polis   the Greek word for a city- state  
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classical   an age that is marked by great achievements  
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acropolis   a high hill  
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agora   public meeting place  
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democracy   a type of government in which people rule themselves  
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aristocrats   rich landowners  
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oligarchy   a government in which a few rich people have power  
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citizens   people who had the right to participate  
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tyrant   a leader who held power through the use of force  
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Pisistratus   Greek tyrant  
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Cleisthenes   overthrew the aristocracy forever. He created the worlds first democratic government  
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mythology   a body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works  
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Homer   Poet. Wrote the Odyssey and the Illiad  
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Sappho   Female Lyric poet  
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Aesop   Wrote Fables that teach people important lessons  
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Fables   short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live  
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cavalry   a unit of soldiers who ride horses  
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Persian wars   a series of wars between Persia and Greece that was started when Darius I sailed to the plains of marathon near Athens  
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Xerxes I   Darius's son. Tried to reconquer Greece. Won the battle of Thermopylae  
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alliance   and agreement to work together  
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Peloponnesian War   a war between Sparta and Athens  
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Phillip II   king of Macedonia defeated Athens and obtained the rest of Greece as their leader  
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phalanx   a group of warriors who stood close together in a square  
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Alexander the Great   Phillip II's son. Created the Persian Empire. Took over from Macedonia to Egypt and India. When his soldiers got to the Indus river they stopped conquering. He died days after visiting Babylonia  
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Hellenistic   Greek-like  
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Hellenistic Macedonia   taken over by the Romans in the mid-100's BC  
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Hellenistic Syria   Taken over by the Romans in the 60s BC  
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Hellenistic Egypt   Taken over by the Romans in 30 BC  
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Socrates   teacher. taught by asking questions and questioning other beliefs. Sentenced to death  
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Plato   Teacher and Philosopher. Created the Academy. Thought that the government should be run by Philosophers. Wrote the Republic  
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Aristotle   Plato's student. Believed people should have balance in their lives.  
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reason   clear and ordered thinking  
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Euclid   Mathematician  
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Hippocrates   Doctor. Created the Hippocratic Oath  
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Republic   people elect leaders to govern them  
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dictators   rulers with almost absolute power  
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Plebians   common people  
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Patricians   Nobles  
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magistrates   the first part of the Roman Government  
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Consuls   The two most powerful magistrates in Rome. Could only hold office for 2 years  
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Roman Senate   a council of wealthy and powerful Romans the advised the city's leaders  
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veto   to prohibit  
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latin   the Roman Language  
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Checks and balances   methods to balance power and keep any one part of a government from becoming stronger or more influential than the others  
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Forum   Rome's public meeting place  
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legions   a group of 6,000 soldiers  
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Punic wars   a series of wars against Carthage, a city in Northern Africa  
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