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| The termini of the Archaic period are defined as the "structural revolution", meaning a sudden upsurge of population and material goods, which occurred c. 750 BC, and the "intellectual revolution" of classical Greece.[1] The end of archaism is conventionally defined as Xerxes' invasion of Greece in 480 BC. |
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| The Peloponnese is a large peninsula linked to the northern territory of Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth |
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| Lower, smaller lcity-stats |
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| Higher, larger city-state in the center |
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| When individual soldiers, who owned their own gear, and also worked for tyrants for hire rebelled against the tyrants since they realized they could |
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| a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping. |
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| a cruel and oppressive ruler |
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| a state-owned serf of the ancient Spartans |
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| Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code |
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| regarded as the founder of Athenian democracy, serving as chief archon (504 B.C) |
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| (or Athenian League) was an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and formed in 478 BCE to liberate eastern Greek cities from Persian rule |
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| a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War |
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| The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta |
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| a public open space used for assemblies and markets. |
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| was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy |
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| is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived, also preached to the people that needed to wake up (gadfly) |
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| people who use rhetoric to con people |
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| the theory that numbers or other abstract objects are objective, timeless entities, independent of the physical world and of the symbols used to represent them. |
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| Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist and a student of Plato |
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| name of the last dynasty of independent Egypt, of Macedonian descent. |
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| Came when the Romans threw off Etruscan rule in 509 B.C |
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| high class citizens of Rome |
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| political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. It was not an elected body, but one whose members were appointed by the consuls |
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| were a series of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC |
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| started the second Punic war. was a great general and cared against Rome but lost |
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| Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus were a pair of tribunes of the plebs from the 2nd Century BCE, who sought to introduce land reform and other populist legislation in ancient Rome. |
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| a term historians use for an informal political alliance between three prominent men of the late Roman Republic: Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus. |
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| is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to March 15. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. The day Julius Caesar was murdered., |
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| a name Augustas made for himself meaning first citizen |
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