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| 3808551517 | Polis | An city state in Ancient Greece. |  | 0 |
| 3808554219 | Athens | Has been the center of Greek civilization. |  | 1 |
| 3808554220 | Sparta | It is a city in Greece which has the best military of all of Greece and they are powerful. |  | 2 |
| 3808556102 | Monarchy | ruled by a king and queen |  | 3 |
| 3808558664 | Philosophy | like a wise man |  | 4 |
| 3808558665 | Hellenism | Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome, but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Islam. |  | 5 |
| 3808560403 | Corinthian Columns | Floral top |  | 6 |
| 3808560404 | Capitol | Used only when talking about a building |  | 7 |
| 3808561667 | Tragedy | A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character |  | 8 |
| 3808571030 | Frieze | ornamental band on a wall |  | 9 |
| 3808578277 | Alexandria, Egypt | foremost center of commerce and Hellenstic cultur |  | 10 |
| 3808580010 | Socrates | Ancient Greek philosopher. Promoted introspection by saying, "Know thyself." |  | 11 |
| 3808580011 | Direct Democracy | A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives |  | 12 |
| 3808581054 | Autocracy | A system of government in which the power to rule is in the hands of a single individual |  | 13 |
| 3808581055 | Dictatorship | A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |  | 14 |
| 3808585123 | Democracy | A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them |  | 15 |
| 3808585830 | Representative Democracy | A system of government in which citizens elect representatives, or leaders, to make decisions about the laws for all the people. |  | 16 |
| 3808585831 | Anarchy | a lack of government and law; confusion |  | 17 |
| 3808587839 | Oligarchy | A government ruled by a few powerful people |  | 18 |
| 3808587840 | Junta | a military group ruling a country after seizing power |  | 19 |
| 3808587841 | Plato | Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection. |  | 20 |
| 3808590390 | Allegory of the Cave | Plato Seeing is not always true; Plato uses this to say that we only have a skewed view on the world and do not take into account what we may not know |  | 21 |
| 3808590391 | Pilar | The wall is a stratified squamous epithelium with a palisaded outer layer resembling that of the outer root sheath of hair follicles. The inner layer is corrugated without a granular layer. | 22 | |
| 3808602094 | Hubris | Excessive pride or self confidence |  | 23 |
| 3808604234 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |  | 24 |
| 3808604235 | Lintel | The horizontal stone or timber placed across and architectural space to take the weight of the roof or wall above; also called a beam. |  | 25 |
| 3808605130 | Doric Columns | This simple style has a plain top. Its was used throughout Greece and its colonies |  | 26 |
| 3808606862 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led him to criticize what he saw as Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is the essential method of rational inquiry. |  | 27 |
| 3808606863 | Ekklesia | To call out of |  | 28 |
| 3808606864 | Boule | Another name for the Council of 500 of the Athenian government |  | 29 |
| 3808607691 | Helot | In ancient Sparta, captive peoples who were forced to work for their conquerors |  | 30 |
| 3808607692 | Theocracy | A state whose government is either believed to be divinely guided or a state under the control of a group of religious leaders. |  | 31 |
| 3808611636 | Dikasteria | Greek jury; 500 jurors chosen daily using kleroterion; had unlimited power |  | 32 |
| 3808611637 | Pericles | An Athenian leader who transformed Athens into a community of scientists, philosophers, poets, dramatists, artists, and architects and who was a big promoter of democracy. |  | 33 |
| 3808612317 | Persian Wars | Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, ranging from the Ionian Revolt (499-494 B.C.E.) through Darius's punitive expedition that failed at Marathon. Chronicled by Herodotus. |  | 34 |
| 3808613726 | Peloponnesian Wars | A war of Sparta against Athens from 431-421. Athens had a stronger navy but sparta had a stronger army and the inland location made a navy unnecessary so pericles waited to attack sparta until it they were in the sea. When the spartans marched into the Athenian territory they burnt the Athenian food supply. Eventually Athens was weakened by a plague and the two side signed a truce |  | 35 |
| 3808616324 | Alexander the Great | He and his father defeated and united the weakened Greek city-states and he defeated the Persian Empire in 330 BCE thus spreading Greek culture and influence throughout Western Asia. |  | 36 |
| 3808617055 | ionic Columns | tall, slender, scroll-shaped capital-column |  | 37 |
| 3808617818 | Pediment | a triangular gable between a horizontal entablature and a sloping roof |  | 38 |
| 3808620521 | Philosopher King | Plato |  | 39 |
