Quizlet Ancient Greece

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