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| 7951662080 | monarchy | Greek for "the rule of one man"; a king represented the community, reigning according to law and respecting the rights of the citizens |  | 0 |
| 7951679047 | aristocracy | "power in the hands of the best" |  | 1 |
| 7951690678 | oligarchy | "the rule of a few"; a small group of wealthy citizens NOT necessarily of aristocratic birth |  | 2 |
| 7951706775 | tyranny | rule by a man who has seized power by extra-legal means |  | 3 |
| 7951719303 | democracy | a type of Greek government in which all citizens, without regard to birth or wealth, administered the workings of government; "the power of the people" |  | 4 |
| 7951742993 | polis | generally translated as city-state; the basic political and institutional unit of Greece; a community f citizens with their own customs and laws |  | 5 |
| 7951756380 | acropolis | an elevated point within a city on which stood temples, altars, public monuments, and various dedication to the gods of the polis |  | 6 |
| 7951765005 | hoplite | the heavily armed infantry man who was the backbone of the Greek army |  | 7 |
| 7951772129 | deme | a local unit that served as the basic element of Cleisthenes's political system |  | 8 |
| 7951786400 | Delian League | a grand naval alliance, created by the Athenians and aimed at liberating Ionia from Persian Rule; formed by the Athenians and their allies |  | 9 |
| 7951802688 | sovereign | an independent, autonomous state run by its citizens, free of any outside power or restraint | 10 | |
| 7951813905 | koine | a common dialect of the Greek language that influenced the speech of all Greeks |  | 11 |
| 7951820685 | Great Silk Road | the name of the major route for the silk trade |  | 12 |
| 7951825120 | Tyche | the Greek goddess of fate and luck, eventually identified with the Roman goddess Fortuna |  | 13 |
| 7951837585 | mystery religions | any of the several religious systems in the Greco-Roman world characterized by secret doctrines and rituals of initiation | 14 | |
| 7951856103 | 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 | 15 | |
| 7951881531 | Stoicism | the most popular of Hellenistic philosophies; it considers nature an expression of divine will and holds that people can be happy only when living in accordance with nature. |  | 16 |
| 7951906595 | heliocentric theory | the belief that the earth revolves around the sun; believed by Aristarchus |  | 17 |
| 7951920061 | natural law | the belief that the law's governing ethical behavior are written into nature itself and therefore possess universal validity | 18 | |
| 7951940725 | Archimedes | a clever inventor (Archimedian screw and artillery, compound pully, hydrostatics) | 19 | |
| 7951958707 | Hellenistic warfare advances | catapults, battering rams, and wooden siege towers |  | 20 |
| 7951966454 | Herophilus | dissected corpses and discovered the nervous (and the two types of nerves) system | 21 | |
| 7951985608 | Hellenistic | the blend of Hellenism and Near Eastern cultures | 22 | |
| 7952000911 | Pre-Socratic thinking | the theory that four simple substances make up the universe: fire, air, earth, and water | 23 |
