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Polis   a city state that was the fundamental political unit in ancient Greece.  
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Acropolis   a marketplace on a fortified hilltop where citizens gathered to discuss city government.  
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Monarchy   a government where a single person rules, called a king.  
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Aristocracy   a government ruled by a small group of noble landowning families.  
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Oligarchy   a government ruled by a few powerful people.  
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Tyrants   powerful people that sometimes seized control of the government by appealing to the common people for support.  
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Democracy   a rule by the people (citizens help to make decisions).  
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Helots   were peasants that forced to stay on the land they worked, previously were Messenians.  
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Phalanx   the fearsome formation that was between Greece and Persian empires that began in Ionia on the coast of Anatolia.  
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Direct Democracy   a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives.  
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Classical Art   are Greeks values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion.  
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Tragedy   was a serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal.  
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Comedy   contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor.  
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Peloponnesian War   a war where the Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies between 431-404 BC.  
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Philosophers   were great thinkers determined to seek the truth, no matter where the search led them.  
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Socrates   a man who believed that absolute standards did exist for truth and justice — critic of the Sophists.  
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Plato   a student of Socrates who wrote the conversations of the philosophical “investigation.”  
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Aristotle   a philosopher who questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought, and knowledge.  
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