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