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Classic Civilizations, Ancient Greece
Vocabulary
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History
10th Grade
09/23/2010
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Monarch
 Definition
single-ruler
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city-state
 Definition
cities rule area around them
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Royal Road
 Definition
Persia; King messages
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Zorastrianism
 Definition
Persian religion
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Homer
 Definition
Epic poems: Odyssey & Illiad
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Polis
 Definition
City-state/town/city/village
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Athens
 Definition
Democracy
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Sparta
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Oligarchy
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Acrapolis
 Definition
Top of hill, temple
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Olympics
 Definition
games & party to celebrate Zeus (Mt. Olympus)
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Pericles
 Definition
founder of democracy
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Peloponnesian War
 Definition
a war fought between Athens and it's allies and Sparta (Sparta won)
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Oligarchy
 Definition
rule by the few
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Aristotle
 Definition
Constitution, philosophy
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Democracy
 Definition
Gov. by the people
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Illiad
 Definition
Epic poem about the Trojan War
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Odyssey
 Definition
Epic Poem by Homer
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Socrates
 Definition
philosopher; method of thinking & questioning
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Plato
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philosopher; founded The Academy
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Aristotle
 Definition
philosopher; idea of constitution
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Pythagoras
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Advanced geometry
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Aristophanes
 Definition
wrote Greek comedies of politicians
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Hellenistic
 Definition
Greek-like
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Alexander the Great
 Definition
kind of Macedon; conquerer of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria
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Macedonia
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ancient kingdom of Phillip II and Alexander the Great
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Eratosthenes
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Advanced geography; circum. of world; longitude and latitude
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Democritus
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advanced science with atom
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Delian League
 Definition
alliance against Persian
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Parthenon
 Definition
temple in Athens
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