| Term | Definition |
|---|
| grapes and olives | two main crops of greece |
| olive oil | liquid the Greeks used to bathe |
| Italy, Egypt, Turkey | three countries Greece shares its history with (abc order) |
| sea bordered and mountainous | geographic aspects of Greece that influenced it |
| Minoans | people who lived on the island of Crete |
| King Minos | legendary king the Minoans are named after |
| bull-vaulting | athletic example performed by men and women where they jump and cartwheel over a bull |
| tidal wave | natural disaster that is one theory of the vanishment of the Minoans |
| Theseus | ancient hero who visited the Minoans, king of Thebes |
| Knossos | palace of the Minoans on Crete |
| Homer | author of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Mycenaean | people of the Greek mainland from 1600 to 1100 BC |
| Minoan | writing system the Mycenaeans used |
| Dorian | people who controlled Greece and didn't have a writing system |
| Perseus | Greek hero rumored to have founded Mycenae |
| polytheistic | religious type of people the Greeks were; multiple gods |
| Agammenon | most famous king of Mycenae |
| Trojan War | war fought between Greece and Troy |
| polis | city-state government that controls the surrounding area |
| acropolis | hilltop region at center of polis where government and leadership took place; location of major temples |
| agora | open market |
| Parthenon | temple to Athena in the acropolis at Athens |
| Dorian, Ionian, Corinthian | styles of column (simplest to most intricate) |
| Dorians | people who settled Sparta |
| Sparta | city- state focused on war, physical strength, and military |
| helots | slaves captured for the purpose of work |
| code of Lycurgus | code used by the Spartans, boys were examined at birth to determine health, boys began military training at 7 and exited the military at 60 |
| steal | action that boys in military barracks were encouraged to commit to survive but would be beaten if caught |
| education | ideals not important to Sparta, but important to Athens |
| bronze | material Spartan armor was made of |
| phalanx | massive formation of soldiers protected by a wall of their shields |
| Mycenaeans | people who settled Athens |
| democracy | form of government that started in Athens |
| male and land owner | requirements for citizenship |
| sea trade | important aspect of the Athenian economy |
| Athena | goddess who was the protector of Athens |
| Panathenaia | festival of Athena; her birthday |
| enslavement | condition of people that democracy in Athens permitted |
| Persia | greatest empire of the ancient world |
| King Darius | king of Persia who tried to invade Greece but was defeated |
| King Xerxes | king of Persia who tried to invade Greece that caused the Greek city-states to join together to fight |
| navy | establishment of Greece that assisted in their wealth after their war against Persia |
| Delian League | fleet of ships that protected merchants against pirates |
| Pericles | leader of Athens during the Athenian Empire |
| Golden Age of Athens | Athenian Empire under Pericles rule |
| Peloponnesian War | war between Athens and Sparta |
| jealousy | emotion that fueled Sparta in the Peloponnesian War |
| plague | epidemic that hit Athens during the Peloponnesian War that caused Sparta to win |
| Mount Olympus | home of the Greek gods |
| oracles | humans that could tell the future |
| Olympics | sporting event to honor the gods |
| females | people not present in or at the Olympics in Ancient Greece |
| Delphi | main place of the oracles and spirituality of Greece |
| warfare | actions that stopped during the Olympics to honor Zeus |
| Socrates | father of philosophy |
| Socratic method | question and answer system to lead a student to an answer |
| Plato | student of Socrates |
| suicide by hemlock | death forced upon Socrates by the government |
| Aristotle | student of Plato |
| Alexander the Great | student of Aristotle |
| The Republic | novel by Plato |
| observation | method Aristotle believed was the key to learning |
| Herodotus | ancient writer; wrote the History of the Persian Wars |
| Thucydides | ancient writer; wrote about the Peloponnesian War |
| Phillip II | King of Macedon before Alexander the Great; Alexander's father |
| Phillip II's goals | conquer Greece and Persia |
| 20 | age Alexander became king |
| Hellenistic Era | era started by Alexander the Great |
| Antigonus, Solusious, Ptolemy | generals of Alexander that received his kingdom after his death |
| Thebes | city destroyed by Alexander |
| pharaoh | title given to Alexander by the Egyptians |
| Eratosthenes | man who estimated the size of the Earth |
| Euclid and Archimedes | men who helped develop geometry |
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