Chapter $ Ancient Greece Review

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Shrine

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Areas dedicated to the honor gods and Goddesses

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Fresco

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Water Color paintings done on wet plaster

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Strait

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Narrow water passages connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

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Homer

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A blind poet who wandered from village to village singing of heroic.

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Polis

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City state

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Acropolis

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High city with its great marble temples dedicated to different gods and goddesses.

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Monarchy

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Government in which a king or queen exercises central power

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Oligarchy

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Government in which ruling powers belongs to a few people

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Phalanx

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A massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers

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Tyrant

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Ruler who gained power by force

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Legislature

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Lawmaking body, that debated laws before deciding to approve or reject them.

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Alliance

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Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense.

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Perciles

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greatest leaders in Athens, demanded citizens to participate, was good to the poor, had the Parthenon built.

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Direct Democracy

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Under this system citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government.

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Stipend

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A fixed Salary, to men who participated in the assembly and it governing council.

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Jury

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A panel of citizens who have the authority to make the final judgement in a trail.

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Ostracism

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practiced used in ancient Greece to banish or send away a public figure who threatned democracy

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Themistocles

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Athens leader who urged the people to build fleet ships

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Darius 1

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Leader of persia during the first persia war

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Delian Leaugue

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Philosopher

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Lovers of wisdom

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Logic

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Rational thinking

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Rehetoric

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The art of skillful speaking

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Parthenon

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A temple dedicated to the goddess Athena

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Plato

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Socrates was his teacher that's why most of what we know about Socrates came from him.

Greek thinker, believed in rule by small group of wise men

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Socrates

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Greek philosopher taught people to ask questions, a method now called the Socratic method

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Herodotes

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"Father of History" because he went beyond listing names of rulers or the retelling of ancient legends.

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Aristotle

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Developed his own idea about government.

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Greek Art

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This art was very idealistic and people were in rigid poses.

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Alexander the Great

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Son of Phillip, King of Macedonia, conquers the city-states of Greece, and then all of Asia minor, Syria, Egypt, and lands of Persia

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Philip the Secound

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Lived in Thebes later hired at Aristotle as a tutor to his young his Alexander.

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Assassination

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Murder of a public figure

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Assimilated

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Absorbed

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Alexandria

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In the very heart of Hellenistic, is a city in Egypt

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Heliocentric

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Sun centered.

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Hippocrates

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Studied the causes of illnesses and looked for cures

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Trojan War

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A ten year war between Mycenae and the city of Troy in Asia Minor.

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Marathon

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25 miles, Athenian warrior, Pheidippides, ran back to Athens to report the victory over the Persians on the Marathon plain.

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Thermopylae

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Salamis

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Peloponnesian War

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War between Sparta and Athens. Sparta won.

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Phillip the second & Battle of Chaeronea

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