Ch4 Vocab Flashcards
Helot
State owned slave in sparta
Democracy
Govt by the people
Tyrants
People who gained power by force
Legislature
Law making body, maintaining order
Solon
Wise leader who freed slaves
Alliance
A union formed for mutal benefit
Pericles
Greek statesman
Direct democracy
In which people decide
Phalanx
A massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soliders
Stipend
A fixed sum that is used as a salary
Ostracism
Exclosion from a society
Logic
Rational thinking
Rhetoric
Art of skillful speaking
The republic
A book that plato wrote,described his prefence for monarchy
Tragedies
Plays that tell of human suffering that ended with disasters
Comedies
Plays of humor
Assassinstion
Murder of a political figure
Heliocentric
A sun centered universe
The elements
A book of geomtry,written by euclid
Hippocratic oath
Ethical standards that doctors take
Alexander the great
He took over greece to india-to eygpt
Legacy-spread of greek cultural
Stipend
A fixed sum that is used as a salary
Ostracism
Exclosion from a society
Logic
Rational thinking
Rhetoric
Art of skillful speaking
The republic
A book that plato wrote,described his prefence for monarchy
Tragedies
Plays that tell of human suffering that ended with disasters
Comedies
Plays of humor
Assassinstion
Murder of a political figure
Heliocentric
A sun centered universe
The elements
A book of geomtry,written by euclid
Hippocratic oath
Ethical standards that doctors take
Alexander the great
He took over greece to india-to eygpt
Legacy-spread of greek cultural
A greek city state
Polis
Drama that usually mocks people and customs
Comedies
Law making body that decides to approve or reject laws
Legislature
Greek temple dedicated to athena
Parthenon
Economic conflict over the dardanelles
Trojan war
Drama that tells of human suffering,ending in disaster
Tragedies
Athenian reformer who outlawed debt slavery
Solon
Greek dramas were often based on these
Mythology
Alliance dominated by sparta
Peloponnesian league
Alliance dominated by athens
Delian league
Socrates method of questioning that corrupted the youth
Socratic method
Rule by a small group from the business class
Oligrachy
Greek philospher who wrote the republic and wanted monarchy
Plato
Greek philospher who was put to death for corrupting the youth
Socrates
Father of history , who wrote about the persian war
Herodotus
Leader of athens during its golden age
Pericles
Studied physics, such as the use of levers,pulleys,and volume
Archimedes
Wrote the elements-about geomtry
Euclid
Developed the formula for calculating the sides of a right triangle
Pythagoras
Greek physicisn who set ethical standards doctors still use
Hippocrates
Eatablished an empire that reached from greece to eygpt to india
Alex the great
King is of macedonia
Phillip II. (2)
Greek historian who wrote about the peloponnesian war
Thucydides
Famous greek sculpture of zeus
Phidias
Who is the chief god of the greeks
Zeus
Compare and contrast athens and sparta
Athens was opend,peaceful,educated and they traded
Sparta: was warlike,isoclated ,strict
Same:formed alliance against non greece countries
Describe 2 ways geography impacted the development of greece economically,politically,and socially
Surrounded by water and located in penisula
Created individual city states
They couldnt farm
Decribe greek sculptures
Idealistic and realistic
Explain the sides and results of the persian war
Greece vs persia
Greece won
Explain the sides and results of the peloponnesian war
Athens vs sparta
Sparta won
What four cultures contributated to the hellenistic age
Greece,eygpt,india,persia
What was alex the great greatest achievement
The spread of greek cultural
What was the purpose of socrates socratic method of questioning
To explore beliefs and find the truth of why you believe in something
List 4 achievements of the hellenistic age
Pythagoran theoram
Hippocrates oath
Mastered the use of levers,pulleys,and discovered how to measure the volume
Calculated the sides of a right triangle
List 2 greek playwrights
Aeschylus
Sophocles
