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Chapter 5 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Member of a group who settled on the Greek mainland around 2,000 BC

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Mycenaean

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War which the Mycenaeans attacked the city of Troy

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Trojan War

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Member of a group of people who migrated into the Greek mainland.

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Dorian

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Greek poet who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

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Heroic story in the form of a long poem

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Epic

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Traditional story that explains why the world is the way it is.

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Myth

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City state of Ancient Greece

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Polis

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Fortified hilltop in an Ancient Greek city.

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Acropolis

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Government ruled by a king or queen

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Monarchy

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Government ruled by a small group of noble families.

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Aristocracy

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Government ruled by a few powerful people

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Oligarchy

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Powerful ruler who gained control of a city-state’s government by asking the common people for support.

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Tyrant

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Rule by the people

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Democracy

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Peasant forced to stay on the land.

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Helot

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Side-by-side fighting formation of foot soldiers

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Phalanx

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Wars between Greece and the Persian empire

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Persian wars

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Form of government in which the citizens rule directly

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Direct democracy

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Art in which harmony, order, and balance were emphasized.

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Classical art

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Serious drama dealing with themes such as love, hate, war, and betrayal.

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Tragedy

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Light and amusing play that may poke fun at serious subjects.

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Comedy

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War in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies.

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Peloponnesian War

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Thinker who uses logic and reason to explore life’s important questions.

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Philosopher

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Great thinker who explored truth and justice and developed a meatloaf of questioning and answering

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Socrates

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Socrates’s student who wrote The Republic, a view of the ideal society

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Plato

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Plato’s student who developed a meat bod for testing and organizing ideas.

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Aristotle

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