Greece Unit
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- Democracy
- government in which the citizens hold the ruling central power.
- Tyranny
- a form of government which the ruler is a dictator.
- Socrates
- A critic of Sophists and an Athenian stonemason and philospher
- Ephors
- A group of 5 officials that helped the council of Elders.
- Polis
- City-state
- Minoans
- A group of people in the Minoan civilization that greatly influenced Greece and was near the Aegaen Sea.
- Archon
- A high magistrate in ancient Athens
- Solon
- A Chief official in Athens who freed slaves and gave people more freedom and rights.
- Plato
- A sutdent of Socrates, set up a school called Academy
- Homer
- A blind poet which the Iliad and the Odyssey were credited to.
- Hoplite
- A heavily armed greek foot soldier
- Oligarchy
- Government is in the hands of the small, wealthy, elite people.
- Aristocracy
- Rule by a hereditary landholding elite.
- Peloponnesian Wars
- Between Athens and Sparta, lasted 27 years
- Thucydides
- a philospher who wrote about the Peloponnesian war, stressed importance of research.
- Hellentistic Age
- A culture that spread from the Mediterranean to the borders of India
- Herodotus
- "Father of History" a great philosopher who studied history in great detail
- Hellenic Culture
- One of the most creative periods in the world
- Phalanx
- a tactical formation of heavily armed soldiers.
- Helots
- State owned slaves
- Cleisthenes
- A reformer who broadened he role of ordinary citizens in government.
- Acropolis
- A high city-state, on the top of a hill were temples dedicated to gods and goddesses.
- Persian Wars
- 460-429 BC Wars between Athens the Persians
- Sparta
- Built by the Dorians, a warrior society.
- Aristotle
- A student of Plato, he developed his own ideas of government
- Alexander the Great
- Student of Aristotle, a great architect
- Mycenaeans
- 1400-1200 BC, Indo-European people who were best remembered for their part in the Trojan War.
- Athens
- Located in Attica, a political place
- Delian League
- The alliance between Athens and other greek city-states.
- Ostracism
- When Athenian citizens voted to banish a public figure who was thought to be a threat
- Pericles
- The statesman of Athens during the golden years of Athens
- Monarchy
- A government which a hereditary ruler exercised central power.
- Dorian Invasions
- Invadors from the North who conquered Laconia, built the city-state of Sparta.
- Pisistratus
- An Athenian tyrant who heloed farmers by giving them loans and land taken from nobles.