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Polis
The Greek word for city-state
Classical Age
Is one that is marked by great achievements
Acropolis
High hill
Democracy
A type of government in which people rule themselves
Aristocrates
Rich landowners
Oligarchy
A government in which only few people have power
Citzen
People who held power through the use of force
Pericles
he led the government from about 460bc to 429bc he encouraged athenians to take pride in thier country
Cyrus the Great
Persian emeror he created the Persian Empire by conquering most of southwest Asia
Xerxes 1
Darius son tried to conquer Greece
Alliance
An agreement to work together
Pelopnnesian War
War between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece apart
Athens and Sparta
Were both part of Ancient Greece they were two independent city-states
Freemen
Were wealthy men who owned property
Thete
Were craftsman and men who did manual labor
Oligarchy
A government that is led by a few people
Helok
Spartan slaves
Delian League
Was a group of many Greek city-states including formen to fight the Persian Army whenthey invaded Athend in 460bc
Thucydides
was a general in the Athenian army
Peloponnesus League
Greek city-states who allied with Sparta they ncluded Coninth and MAcedonia
Philip 2nd
King of Macedonia he was Alexander the Great father
Phlanx
Was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
Alexander the Great
Macedoian ruler was a millitary commander the son of Philip 2nd
Hellenistic
Greek-like culture
Socrates
Thinker Greek philosopher
Plato
Greek philsopher student od Socrates wrote the republic
Aristole
Platos student theinker and philosphere
Reason
Clear and ordered thinker
Euclid
Studied mathematics
Hippocrates
A doctor and tried to find duseases
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