Chapter 6 - Golden & Hellenistic Age

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golden age

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era of cultural progress

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architecture

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the art of science of planning and building structures

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philosophy

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study of basic questions of reality and human existence

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aristocracy

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a government ruled by an upper class

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dramas

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plays containing action or dialogue and usually involving conflict and emotion

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tragedies

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forms of Greek drama in which the main charcter struggles against fate or events

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phalanx

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a military formations composed of rows of soldiers standing shouler to shoulder, carrying spears or spikes

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orators

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public speakers

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Hellenistic

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"Greek like" way that combined ideas and values drawn from the Mediterranean and Asia

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commerce

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the buying and selling of commodities ( goods and services)

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astronomy

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the science of objects and matter beyond the earth's atmosphere

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pike

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a long wooden shaft with a pointed head used as a foot soldier's weapon; a long spear. The Macedonian pike was about 18 ft long.

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anatomy

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a branch of science that deals with the structure and location of organs in the body

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strait

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a passageway of water that connects two large bodies of water

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sound

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along and wide body of water. A sound connectss two larger bodies of water or seperates an island from a large body of land. A sound is a large strait.

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sea

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a large body of water nearly or partly surrounded by land. A sea is much smaller than an ocean

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harbor

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a sheltered body of water where ships anchor and are safe from winds and waves of storms at sea

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astrology

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divination based on the supposed influence of the stars upon human life