social studies
greek history
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- Aesop
- told stories to teach people important lessons
- Persian Wars
- this invation began a series of war between Persia adn Greece that historians call the _________
- tyrant
- which meant a leader who held power through the use of force
- acropolis
- a high hill
- Alexander the Great
- efforts built an empire made him one of the greatest conquerors in history
- alliance
- an agreement to work together
- Euclid
- he was interested in Geometry
- Peloponnesian War
- a war between Athens adn Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece apart
- Cyrus
- was nicknamed _________ the great
- Aristotle
- perhaps the greatest greek thinkers
- Hellenistic
- Greek-Like
- mythology
- a body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the worldworks
- citizens
- people who had the rights to participate in governent
- Xerxes I
- tried to conquer Greece
- Plato
- was a student of Socrates
- reason
- clear and ordered thinking
- Darius I
- claimed the throne and killed all his rivals for power.
- classical age
- age is one that is marked by great achievments
- Sappho
- the most famous WOMEN lyric poet was named...
- phalanx
- was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
- fables
- are short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live
- Socrates
- believed that people must never stop looking for knowledge
- democracy
- a type of government in which people rule themselves
- polis
- greek city-state
- oligarchy
- a government in which only a few people have power
- cavalry
- is a unit of soldiers who ride horses
- aristocrats
- rich landowners