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Polis
the greek word for a city-states
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Classical Age
is one that is marked by great achievements
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Democracy
a type of goverment in which people rule them
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Aristocrates
rich landowners
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Oligarchy
a government in which only a few people have power
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Citzen
people who had the right to participate in government
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Tyrant
leader who held power through the use of force
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Pericles
he led the government from about 460 to 429bc, he encouraged Atheniaans to take pride in there country
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Cyrus the Great
persian empire, he created the Persin Empire by conquering most of Asia
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Xerxes 1
darius son, tried to conquer greece
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Alliance
an agreementto work together
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Pelopnesian War
war between Athens and Sparta thatthreatened to tear all of Greece apart
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Athens and Sparta
were both part of ancient greece, they were two independent city-states
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freemen
were the male citzens of Athens
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Aristocrats
were wealthy men who owned property
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Thetes
were craftsman and men who did manual labor
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Oligarchy
a government that is led by a few people
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Delian League
was a group of many greek city-states including thesssaly a thrace. the delian league was originally formed to fight the Persian Army when they invaded athens in 460
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Thucydides
was a general in the Athenian army
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Peloponnesus League
greek city who allied with sparta. They included coninth and macedonia
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Philip 2
king of macedonia alexander the greats father
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Phalanx
was a group of warriors who stood close together in square
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Alexander the Great
macedoian ruler was a millitary commander the son of philip 2
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Hellenistic
greek-like culture
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Socrates
thinker greek philosophere
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Plato
Greek philosopher student of socrates wrote the republic
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Aristole
platos student,thinker,and philosopher
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Reason
clear and ordered thinker
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Euclid
studied mathematics
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Hippocrates
a doctor and tried to find diseases
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