Anc Civ chapter 5
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- Western civilization
- the heritage of ideas that spread to Europe and America and remains a part of your culture
- agora
- Greek marketplace
- epic
- long, heroic poems
- arete
- to strive for excellence, to show courage, and to win fame and honor
- myth
- stories about the Greek's gods
- polis
- a city-state
- citizens
- free adult men
- acropolis
- a fortified hilltop
- aristocracy
- where rule passed into the hands of a small group of noble families
- hoplites
- soldiers that fought on foot
- phalanx
- a square of men each with their spears tilted more and more towards the front of the group
- tyrants
- the men who came to power through tough rebellions
- helots
- peasants forced to stay on the land they worked (these were the Messenia that Sparta took over)
- democracy
- a government in which all citizens took part
- who was Herodotus
- a Greek scholar who wrote about the Persian Wars (his book is called History of the Persian Wars)