Chapter 56: Conquest and Tyranny Flashcards
Acropolis
It was the high point of a city.
Archon
It was the name of a ruler in Athens, it meant chief justice.
Chalcidice
It was an entire area of northern Aegean made up of settlers from Chalcis that were sent there.
Cylon
He was an Olympic champion who showed up in Eusebius’s list as the winner of diaulos or “double race,” he mad a bid to turn the archonship into something else.
Cyrene
It was a Greek settlement built along the norther African coast, to extend the Theran colony over the mainland.
Draco
He was a counselor and the man who took the most important job of taking down the most importabt if the massive oral traditions, systematizing them, and turning them into a written code.
Ekklesia
They were a group of nine Athens who were elected by other landowners to confirm the elections.
Eusebius
He was the bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, he put together a chronological table of ancient times which describes a seven-hundred-year succession of Athenian kings.
Metropolis
It is the mother city someone came from.
Messene
It is a civilization on the eastern border of the Taygetus mountain range, it was good for ploughing and good for planting.
Polemarch
It was the name of an official who was given control of the military.
Solon
He was an Athenian, who around 600 B.C. stepped forwards to make a second stab at establishing a fair law code.
