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Ancient Greece
Vocab.....all of the words form section 1-5..
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9th Grade
02/24/2010

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Polis
Definition
city/state
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Acropolis
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A fortited area on top of the hill.
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Agora
Definition
an open area below acropils where people could essembal. And served as a market.
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Hoplites
Definition
Heavily armed infantry soldiers.
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Phalanx
Definition
Marching shoulder to shoulder in a rectangular formation
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Byzantium
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The site of what later became Constantinople and is now Istanbul.
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Tyrants
Definition
A ruler who seized power by force from the aristocrats.
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Democracy
Definition
A government by the power or rule of the many.
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Oligarchy
Definition
rule by the few
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Sparta
Definition
Greek city-state
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Helots
Definition
Captured Messenians and Lacanians that were forced to work for the spartans.
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Eohors
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a group of five men who were elected to be resopsible for the education of the youth and conduct of all citzens
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Cleisthenes
Definition
Athenian people
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[image]Homer
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Recounts most famous of all their supposed military adventures.
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Dark age
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Difficult period for Greecce between 1100bc to 750bc.
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Epic poem
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A long poem that tells the deed of a great hero.
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Arete
Definition
won in a struggle or contest, it is when a hero strives for excellence.
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Xerxes
Definition
Persian monarch after Darius died in 468 bc.
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Battle at Thermopylae Pass
Definition
When the Greeks tried to delay the persians. A Greek force of about 7,000 help off the Persian army for 2 days.
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Delian League
Definition
Deffenceive allience agianst the persians, formed by the Athenians.
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Pericles
Definition
A dominant figure in Athenian politics between 461 bc and 429 bc
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Direct Democracy
Definition
A system of government in which the people participate directly in government decisions makeing through mass meetings.
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Olympus
Definition
Highest mountian in Greece, where the gods lived.
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Oracle
Definition
A second shrine where a god or goddess revealed the future through a priest or priestess.
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Tragedies
Definition
A trilogy (3 plays) built around a common theme.
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Sophodes
Definition
A great Athenian playwright.
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Herodotus
Definition
Writer, wrote HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS WAR.
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Thucydides
Definition
Athenian general who fought in the great Peloponnesian war.
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Philosophy
Definition
An organized system of thought.
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Pythagoras
Definition
A Greek philosopher.
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Sophists
Definition
A group of traveling teachers in Ancient Greece
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Socrats
Definition
A sculpture whose true love is philosiphy.
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Plato
Definition
One of the greatest philosiphers of Western civilization
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Aristotle
Definition
Plato's most famous pupil.
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Alexander the great
Definition
20 year old king from Macedonia.
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Alexandria
Definition
The Greek capital of Egypt
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Hellenistic Era
Definition
New age created by Alexander.
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Euclid
Definition
Mathmatition, who wrote "Elements"
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Archimeds
Definition
most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era.
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Epicureanism
Definition
School of thougut.
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Stoicism
Definition
A school of thought that says you can only achieve excellence.
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