Ch. 5 set 1
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- Greek Geography
- Greece had short rivers that were not used for travel and trade. It had a penninsula that was bordered by the Aegean and Ionian Seas. Mountain ranges seperated city-states but let in invaders
- Hoplite
- the nonaristocratic soldiers who were part of the infantry who prtected the Greeks.
- Polis
- a Greek city-state
- Mycenaeans
- Conquered the Minoans and wrote with a system of writing called linear B. They also had clans that were each headed by a warrior.
- Agora
- market place in a city-state in Greece
- Tyrants
- people who gained power by force
- main aspects of Greek culture
- religion was important, myths played a major role, pleasing the gods was a part of daily life, women did not have as many rights
- 4 characteristics of a polis
- covered a small area of land, populated by less than 10,000 people, built on an acropolis, and each city-state had an agora
- Democracy
- a government in which citizens take part
- Popular government
- idea that people can and should rule themselves
- Minoans
- the earliest Greek civilization which developed on the island of Crete
- Acropolis
- a high hill that marked the center of ancient Athens
- Homer
- blind poet who wrote the Odyssey and the Illiad