| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Aegean Sea | Protected Greece from invaders |
| Minoans | Lived on Crete. |
| Trojan War | Helen stolen from Sparta caused this conflict |
| Homer | A poet who "invented" the Greek gods |
| Zeus | Chief Greek god |
| Posseidon | god of the sea |
| Athena | Protector of Athens |
| Hera | Wife of Zeus |
| City states | Each city was independent and a country |
| acropolis | meeting place |
| monarchy | Rule by the king |
| aristocracy | Rule by a hereditary elite |
| oligarchy | Rule by the best, an elite |
| tyranny | Rule by a tyrant, a dictator |
| democracy | Rule by each person being able to vote |
| direct democracy | Each voter votes on each issue |
| representative democracy | People are picked to represent the voters on key issues |
| Sparta | A harsh life helped the common good in this town |
| Athens | Democracy and culture flourished in this city beaten by Sparta |
| Areopagus | A place of thinking and learning |
| Peloponnesian War | Athens and allies versus Sparta and allies |
| Philip II | Alexander's father. Conquered Greece |
| Alexander the Great | Made Greece the world's biggest empire so far |
| Herodotus | Greek historian |
| pedagogue | A slave who taught the children |
| Sophocles | Playwright. Wrote Antigone and Oedipus Rex |
| Aesop | Wrote fable. Tales of morality. |
| Pythagoras | A squared plus B squared equals C squared |
| Hippocrates | Doctor. Oath named after him |
| Socrates | Greek philosopher. Drank hemlock |
| Aristotle | Greek philosohper. Still influences Western thought |
| Stoicism | Living the hard life is the good life |
| Epicurean | Eat, drink and be merry |
| Euclid | Developped standard geometry |
| koine Greek | Common Greek. Greek of the Bible |
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