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| Frage | Antworten |
| hoplites | Greek soilders who carried a round shield a short sword and a 9 foot spear |
| phalanx | a military formation a wall of shields created by soldiers marching shoulder the shoulder in a rectangular formation |
| sophcles | famous Greek playwright he wrote the tragedy Oedipus the king |
| amphitheater | outdoor theater it was open to the sky the greeks loved drama one of the most famous is Epidurals |
| Socrates | father of Philosophy put on trial for corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens drank poison |
| Socratic method | the teaching method invented by Scorates based on asking questions the point of this is to get students to regonize the truth for themselves |
| Plato | student of Socrates wrote everthing down opened his own school |
| Aristotle | was a student of plato's he wrote about science government etc he taught alexander the great |
| Alexander the great | at twenty years old he was the king of Macedonia he conquers almost all of the known world. and he spreads Greek culture |
| Hellenistic age | name for the period of time when Alexander was king the spread of Greek culture high point of Greek history |
| the Peloponnnesian | a long war betweent he two largest Greek states Athens and Sparta |
| peninsula | body of land surronded ny three sides |
| mt olympus | the highest mountain range in greece where there gods lived |
| Crete | largest island if greece |
| arthur evans | archealogosist who excavated knossos |
| mycenaeans | name of the civilzation that developed on the greek mainland |
| homer | ancient greek poet |
| polis | a city state in greece |
| athens | for many centuries the most powerful of allcity states |
| acropolis | a large hill in acient greece |
| agora | a central area in greek cities used both as a marketplace |
| parthenon | a temple |
| direct democracy | type of democracy in which wvery citizen partipates in law making |
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