Ch. 5 set 1
Terms
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- tyrants
- someone who illegally took power but had the people's support; at first they ruled well but then they became unjust- now the word means someone who uses power brutally
- hoplite
- new kind of nonaristocraticsoldier who carried long spears and fought in closely spaced rows
- minoans
- people who built a great civilization, named after legendary king of Crete named King Minos; artists covered walls of palace in frescoe; were sailors and traders
- polis
- greek word for city-state
- agora
- marketplace in each city-state; main public meeting place
- Myceneans
- people from Greek mainland who conquered central Crete; warring people who grouped themselves into clans and tribes
- Main Aspects of Greek culture
- religious beliefs including myths, oraclesand Olympic games involving gods and godesses; and government that went from kings to democracy
- popular government
- idea that people can and should rule songs
- 4 characteristics of a polis
- covered small area of land; small population; fort built on acropolis;agora
- Greek geography
- surrounded by Ionian and Aegean Seas; long, uneven coast line(fishers, sailors and trader); short mtn ranges that kept villages apart and rivers that didnt help aid travel and trade between villages(people never unified)
- democracy
- government in which citizens participate in
- Homer
- blind poet who wrote the epics called the Illiad and the Odyssesy
- acropolis
- hill on which original fort was built on