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Polis

City-state in ancient Greece

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Acropolis
A hill or high, defensible part of a city

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Agora
The marketplace of ancient Greek cities

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Helots
State slaves

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Hoplites
Foot soldiers

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Museum.jpg

Hubris
Excessive pride and arrogance

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Democracy
Government by the people

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Solon
A law-maker over turning Draco's harshest laws

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Tyrant
A person in power that rules harshly

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Cleisthenes
A reformer who took over Athens after Peisistratus died

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Direct democracy
Where citizens themselves vote in government

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Archon
Elected official who served as the chief of state in Athens

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Phalanx
A platoon

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Pericles
A skilled politician who was responsible of the rebuilding of Athens

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Socrates
First of the great Athenian philosophers

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Plato
Socrates' student who also became a great philosopher

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Aristotle
The third of the great Athenian philosophers

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v8575.jpg/765px-Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg

Reason
To argue by appealing to someone's intellect

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Logic
Science or study of reasoning principles

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Homer
Greek epic poet

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Lyric poetry
Poems that deals with emotions and desires

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Herodotus
The first major writer of history in Greece

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erodotus.jpg

Thucydides
A second major historian

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Alexander the Great


Son of Macedonian king named Philip II

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Hellenistic
The new civilization of Alexander the Great

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Euclid
A scholar who formulated many ideas of geometry

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Eratosthenes
Man whom was best known for calculating the size of the world

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Archimedes
Made many advances in technology during the Hellenistic age

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