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Greek Terms
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History
10th Grade
09/27/2011

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Athens
Definition
Greek city-state known for the birth of democracy
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Sparta
Definition
Greek city-state best known as being a military state
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Hellenistic Culture

Definition

society created by blending ideas from all the different parts of Alexander the Great’s Empire

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Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato

Definition
philosophers which are considered to be the founders of Western thought
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Delian League

Definition
Made laws about protection and trade
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Direct Democracy

Definition
Laws and officials are elected by the people
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Alexander the Great

Definition

  leader who created a Greek empire that rimmed that included part of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and even into India

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Homer
Definition

 Greek writer who created some of the world’s most famous dramas

and tragedies

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Age of Pericles

Definition
Period of prosperity and stable government, named  after a famous philosopher
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