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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Solon | Athenian archon who introduced reforms making the govenment more democratic and the economy more profitable |
| Pisistratus | Athenian tyrant who gave poor citizens a voice in government and weakened the aristocracy |
| Cleisthenes | Athenian leader who created the Council of 500 and made the assembly a legislature |
| Pericles | Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athens' political and cultural supremacy in Greece; he ordered the construction of the Parthenon (died in 429 BC) |
| Phillp | Macedonian king who conquered Greece |
| Alexander the Great | Conquered and ruled an empire stretching from Macedonia to the Indus Valley |
| Tyrant | a cruel and oppressive dictator |
| ostracism | the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) |
| Homer | ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC) |
| Hippocrates | medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine |
| Herodotus | the ancient Greek known as the father of history |
| Polis | Greek city-state |
| Minoans was earliest Greeks, island of Crete | ... |
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