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Ancient Greece2
Vocab section 2
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History
9th Grade
02/25/2010

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Polis
Definition
city/state
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Acropolis
Definition
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
Definition
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
Definition
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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