| Term | Definition |
|---|
| isthmus | VOCABULARY: A small strip of land. Lesson 1 |
| harbors | VOCABULARY: Sheltered places with deep water close to shore. Lesson 1 |
| trireme | VOCABULARY: A fighting ship. Lesson 1 |
| cultural borrowing | VOCABULARY: Taking ideas from other cultures. Lesson 2 |
| epics | VOCABULARY: Long story-poems. Lesson 2 |
| polis | VOCABULARY: A city-state. Lesson 3 |
| acropolis | VOCABULARY: A secure place. Lesson 3 |
| agora | VOCABULARY: An open-air market and a gathering palce. Lesson 3 |
| tyrant | VOCABULARY: Someone who took control of the government by force or other means and rules alone. Lesson 3 |
| aristocracy | VOCABULARY: The wealthy ruling class that is made up of powerful landowners and merchants. Lesson 3 |
| assembly | VOCABULARY: Law-making group. Lesson 3 |
| helot | VOCABULARY: Slaves owned by the state. Lesson 3 |
| oligarchy | VOCABULARY: A small ruling group. Lesson 3 |
| democracy | VOCABULARY: Rule by the people. This was the way of rule under Pericles. Lesson 3 |
| majority rule | VOCABULARY: The type of voting in which whichever side has more votes gets their law passed. Lesson 3 |
| myth | VOCABULARY: Story passed down about a god or hero. Lesson 3 |
| leagues | VOCABULARY: Groups of allies. Lesson 4 |
| tragedies | VOCABULARY: Serious plays where the main character comes to an unhappy ending. Lesson 4 |
| comedies | VOCABULARY: Humerous plays. Lesson 4 |
| plague | VOCABULARY:A deadly sickness. Lesson 4 |
| demagogues | VOCABULARY: Bad leaders. Lesson 4 |
| alliance | VOCABULARY: An agreement to help each other. Lesson 5 |
| Hellenistic | VOCABULARY: Greek-like. Lesson 5 |
| multicultural | VOCABULARY: An empire with many cultures. Lesson 5 |
| Aegean Sea | GEOGRPHY: An arm of the Mediterranian Sea between Asia Minor and Greece. |
| Mycenaeans | PEOPLE: A group of people that were warlike and measured wealth by the number of weapons they owned. |
| Minoans | PEOPLE: These people seemed to be mainly farmers and traders, and lived on the island of Crete. |
| Sparta | PEOPLE: A Greek city-state the was located in southern Peloponneus, and where physical activity was thought to be overly important. |
| mountains | GEOGRAPHY: This feature covered over three fourths of Greece!!! |
| Crete | GEOGRAPHY: A large, Greek island that sepereates the Mediterranian and the Aegean Seas from each other. |
| Homer | PEOPLE TO KNOW: A Greek poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Much of what we know of the Mycenaeans comes from his famous stories. |
| Pericles | PEOPLE TO KNOW: A great leader of Athens that ruled during Athens golden age. |
| Plato | PEOPLE TO KNOW: A Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. |
| Socrates | PEOPLE TO KNOW: A famous Greek philosopher who taught by asking questions rather than reading his students the information. |
| Aristotle | PEOPLE TO KNOW: A Greek philosopher and teacher of Alexander the great. His is considered one of the greatest thinkers of all time. |
| citizen | VOCABULARY: A member of a city, state, or country. |
| wine | GOOD TO KNOW: One of Greeks favorite drinks was... |
| Olympic Games | GOOD TO KNOW: A huge sporting event (sort of) that honored the Greek king of the Gods, Zeus. |
| Macedonia | An ancient civilization near the Aegean Sea. |
| direct democracy | GOVERNMENT: A type of government where citizens took a direct role in the governent. |
| Athenian democracy | GOVERNMENT: A type of government used in Athens which is sort of a combine of majority rule and democracy. |
| Alexander the Great | PEOPLE TO KNOW: Son of Phillip II, was tutored by Aristotle, and became king of Macedonia in336 B.C. He then continued and ruled a huge area, taking of much with his huge army. |
| city-states | GOOD TO KNOW: Forts, called acropolises, agoras, assemblies or aristocracies, women having less right than men, slaves, and little trade were all common throughout most Greek ____-______. |
| Spartans | PEOPLE: These people believed that physical activity was overly important. |
| Athenians | PEOPLE: A group of people living in a Greek city-state that beleived those should only serve in the army when needed, and thought that all should be able to apart of the governement, which lead this city-state to a democracy. |
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