Chapter 2 Flashcards
A typical city state was built around a high area called an_________
(This is important because religiously it was important)
Acropolis
Or city-state, which became the basic political unit of Greece.
(This is important because it may of helped us to form our sepperate states)
Polis
Or marketplace, where people did business, gossiped, and discussed politics. (This is important to spread ideas around)
Agora
State slaves(this is important because this aloud Spartans to focus on training for war)
Helots
Foot soldiers (military important for the time period.)
Hoplites
Or grate pride, brought many heroes to tragic ends.(this important because it shoes the grate have flaws)
Hubris
A form of government run by the people.( this is important because it lade the foundations for our government)
Democracy
A strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the people.(this is important because this brung grate economic wealth!)
Tyrant
This type of system, in which all people vote directly on an issue(this is important because it gave power to the commoner)
Direct democracy
Elected, who served as the chief of state in Athens (this is important because they would act as like the president)
Archon
A tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields (this is important because it helped a lot in the defense of Greece against Persia)
Phalanx
Three grate Greek philosophers ( this is important because they laid the foundation for philosophy)
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Means clear and ordered thinking(this is important because this helped people to make smart choices)
Reason
The process of making inferences (this helps because it helped people use what they already know to answer questions)
Logic
Named after a musical instrument called the lyre that was often played to accompany the reading of poems(this is important because it was a new form of music)
Lyric poetry
Historians one of the first people’s (this is important because it lead to the study of history)
Herodotus, and Thucydides
The Macedonian rise to power was led by a king named____________ and his son _____________(this is important because it spread Greek ideas)
Philip II, and Alexander the Great
Or Greek like(this is important because this is what spread over the empire)
Hellenistic
Who formulated many of the ideas about geometry that we still learn about today
Euclid
Calculated the size of the world
Eratosthenes
Building of the great library in Egypt
Cities- urban planning
Middle class-expanding
Money coined- one for all
Economy
One of the ancient worlds greatest inventors
Greek Fire? (Napalm)
Used math to make weapons, fortifications; proved usefulness of pie
Mirrors as weapons, pulleys, levers, water screw
Archimedes
Cynics- no real truth
Diogenes
Stoics-fate is always right, go with the flow, don’t get worried
Zeno
