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| 8332511809 | polis | generally translated as "city-state"; the basic political and institutional unit of Greece | 0 | |
| 8332521976 | acropolis | an elevated point within a city on which stood temples, altars, public monuments, and various dedications to the gods of the polis | 1 | |
| 8332546962 | monarchy | derived from the Greek for "the rule of one man"; the type of Greek government in which a king represented the community |  | 2 |
| 8332568416 | oligarchy | "the rule of a few"; a type of Greek government in which a small group of wealthy citizens, not necessarily of aristocratic birth, ruled |  | 3 |
| 8332593346 | tyranny | rule by a tyrant, a man who used his wealth to gain a political following that could take over the existing government |  | 4 |
| 8332612509 | democracy | a type of Greek government in which all citizens, without regard to birth or wealth, administered the workings of government; translated as "the power of the people" |  | 5 |
| 8332632904 | hoplite | the heavily armed infantry man who was the backbone of the Greek army | 6 | |
| 8332645479 | deme | a local unit that served as the basic element of Cleisthenes's political system | 7 | |
| 8332661072 | Delian League | a grand naval alliance, created by the Athenians and aimed at liberating Ionia from Persian rule | 8 | |
| 8332680987 | sovereign | an independent, autonomous state run by its citizens, free of any outside power or restraint | 9 | |
| 8332695410 | koine | a common dialect of the Greek language that influenced the speech of all Greeks |  | 10 |
| 8332709180 | Great Silk Road | the name of the major route for the silk trade |  | 11 |
| 8332726181 | Tyche | the Greek goddess of fate and luck, eventually identified with the Roman goddess Fortuna |  | 12 |
| 8332745639 | mystery religions | any of several religious systems in the Greco-Roman world characterized by secret doctrines and rituals of initiation |  | 13 |
| 8332765100 | Epicureanism | a Greek system of philosophy founded on the teachings of Epicurus, which emphasized that a life of contentment, free from fear or suffering, was the greatest good |  | 14 |
| 8332786466 | Stoicism | the most popular of Hellenistic philosophies; it considers nature an expression of divine will and holds that people can be happy only when loving in accordance with nature | 15 | |
| 8332818498 | natural law | the belief that the laws governing ethical behavior are written into nature itself and therefore possess universal validity | 16 | |
| 8332858917 | heliocentric theory | the belief that the earth revolves around the sun |  | 17 |
