Chapter 5 Set 1
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- Main aspects of Greek culture
- democratic, women did not have poiltical rights, slaves represented a large part of the city-state's population.
- Hoplite
- the nonaristocratic soldiers who were part of the infantry who prtected the Greeks.
- 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.
- Minoans
- Greecian civilizationthat set up trading posts on islands in the Aegan Sea and in Asia Minor that were conquered by the Mycenaens.
- Tyrants
- someone who illegally took power but had the people's support
- Homer
- blind poet who wrote the Odyssey and the Illiad
- popular government
- the idea that people can and should rule themselves
- agora
- marketplace
- Greek Geography
- Short rivers that didn't provide for travel and trade, penninsula pertruding into the Aegean and Ionian Seas. Also had mountain ranges that kept the city-states apart but let invaders in.
- 4 characteristics of a polis
- fort-like, and had to do with the geographical territory of the city-state, the community that it represented, and the political and economic independence that it produced.
- democracy
- a government in which citizens take part
- polis
- the Greek word for city-state
- Acropolis
- hill