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| 7802386351 | City-State (Polis) | greek word for city-state, which developed around a central fort | 0 | |
| 7802386352 | Hellenisitic | describing Greek history or culture after the death of Alexander the Great, including the three main kingdoms formed by the breakup of ALexander's empire | 1 | |
| 7802386353 | Democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 2 | |
| 7802386354 | Oligrachy | a government that is run and controlled by a SMALL ELITE GROUP of people | 3 | |
| 7802386355 | Monarchy | A government in which power is in the hands of a single person | 4 | |
| 7802386356 | Tyranny | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | 5 | |
| 7802386357 | Acropolis | A fortified area located at the top of a hill that served as a place to escape in case of attack and sometimes as a religious center. | 6 | |
| 7802386358 | Parthenon | A large temple dedicated to the goddess Athena on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. It was built in the 5th century BCE, during the Athenian golden age. | 7 | |
| 7802386359 | Athens | A city-state of ancient Greece that was first to have a democracy; also known as the birthplace of Western civilization; the ancient capital of present-day Greece. | 8 | |
| 7802386360 | Sparta | A former city-state that was a powerful rival of Athens. | 9 | |
| 7802386361 | Persian War | A series of wars between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire (5th century B.C.). | 10 | |
| 7802386362 | Peloponnesian War | (431-404 BCE) The war between Athens and Sparta that in which Sparta won, but left Greece as a whole weak and ready to fall to its neighbors to the north. | 11 | |
| 7802386363 | Aristotle | .(384-322 bc), Greek philosopher and scientist. A student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, he founded a school (the Lyceum) outside Athens. He is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western thought. His surviving works cover a vast range of subjects, including logic, ethics, metaphysics, politics, natural science, and physics | 12 | |
| 7802386364 | Socrates | was born in 400b.c.e. He starts to question greeks law and society. He became unpopular, he would mess with people. Was found guilty from treason. Is plato's teacher; a philosopher | 13 | |
| 7802386365 | Plato | 427-347 BC; Socrates' most famous student; described the ideal form of government in his famous book, The Republic | 14 | |
| 7802386366 | Draco | Characterized by very strict laws, rules, and punishments | 15 | |
| 7802386367 | Solon | Athenian reformer of the 6th century; established laws that eased the burden of debt on farmers, forbade enslavement for debt | 16 | |
| 7802386368 | Battle of Marathon | (490 B.C.E.) Battle where the Persians who invaded Greece were defeated on the Plain of Marathon by an Athenian army. | 17 | |
| 7802386369 | Battle of Salamis | 480 B.C.E. The battle that effectively ended the Persian war. The Greek fleet, although vastly outnumbered, defeated the Persian fleet. This helped end the Persian war, freeing Greece. | 18 | |
| 7802386370 | Delian League | (478-477 BC) A confederation that formed when Athens stepped in to provide new leadership against the Persians | 19 | |
| 7802386371 | Peloponnesian League | Formed from the surrounding city-states near Sparta. It was formed to defeat democracy in Athens. | 20 | |
| 7802386372 | Pericles | Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon. | 21 | |
| 7802386373 | Golden Age of Pericles | the period after the Persian Wars during which Greece enjoyed peace and prosperity under the leadership of Pericles. The Parthenon was made during this time, philosophy and the arts flourished during this age | 22 | |
| 7802386374 | Herodotus | (ca. 485-425 B.C.E.) Heir to the technique of historia- "investigation"- developed by Greeks in the late Archaic period. He came from a Greek community in Anatolia and traveled extensively, collecting information in western Asia and the Mediterranean lands. He traced the antecedents of and chronicled the Persian Wars between the Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, thus originating the Western tradition of historical writing. | 23 | |
| 7802386375 | Aeschylus | wrote the only greek tragedy that based on playwrights own time rather than mythology | 24 | |
| 7802386376 | Sophocles | 494-406 BCE, Greek writer of tragedy Oedipus Rex | 25 | |
| 7802386377 | Thucydides | Greek historian. Considered the greatest historian of antiquity, he wrote a critical history of the Peloponnesian War that contains the funeral oration of Pericles | 26 | |
| 7802386378 | Homer | A Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey | 27 | |
| 7802386379 | Illiad and Odyssey | Two epic poems written by Homer describing parts of the Trojan War. Greek. | 28 | |
| 7802386380 | Ionic | along with Doric & Corinthian, distinct style of Hellenistic architecture, more ornate than Doric, but less than Corinthian. | 29 | |
| 7802386381 | Doric | along with Ionic & Corinthian, distinct style of Hellenistic architecture. more ornate than Doric but less than Corinthian. | 30 | |
| 7802386382 | Corinthian | along with Ionic and Doric, distinct style of Hellenistic architecture, least ornate than all. | 31 | |
| 7802386383 | Archimedes | (287-212 BCE) Greek mathematician and inventor. He wrote works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. He is best known for the lever and pulley. | 32 | |
| 7802386384 | Hippocrates | "Founder of Medicine" During the Golden Age in Greece he was a scientist that believed all diseases came from natural causes. He also had high ideals for physicians & an oath was made that is still used today. | 33 | |
| 7802386385 | Euclid | (c. 300 BC, Alexandrian Greek) is principally known for the Elements, a textbook on geometry and number theory, that was used for over 2,000 years and which grounds essentially all of what is taught in modern high school geometry classes. Euclid is known for his five postulates that define Euclidean (i.e., "normal") space, especially the fifth (the "parallel postulate") which can be broken to create spherical and hyperbolic geometries. He also proved the infinitude of prime numbers. | 34 | |
| 7802386386 | Pythagoras | 6th Century B.C., a Greek philosopher and mathematician, founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism | 35 | |
| 7802386387 | Macedonia | An an ancient kingdom ruled by Alexander the Great that conquered most of Greece and the Persian Empire in the 300s B.C. | 36 | |
| 7802386388 | Phillip 2 | ruled Macedon from 359 to 336 BCE; founder of centralized kingdom, later conquered rest of Greece, which was subjected to Macedonian Authority | 37 | |
| 7802386389 | Greek Mythology | Myths and legends of the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. Part of Greek religion. | 38 | |
| 7802386390 | Alexander the Great | son of Philip II; received military training in Macedonian army and was a student of Aristotle; great leader; conquered much land in Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Mesopotamia; goal was to conquer the known world | 39 |
