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Polis
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Greek word for city-state, when developed around a central fort.
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Homer
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Wrote epic storys the iliad and the odyssey.
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Myths
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Traditional stories about gods, goddesses, and heroes.
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Aristocracies
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Greek city-states.
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Solon
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Who became an archon in 544 B.C. and he freed people who were slaves.
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Direct Democracy
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Form of democracy in which all citizens participate directly in making decisions.
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Sophists
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Athenian men who opened school for boys to study government, mathematics, ethics, and metoric.
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Battle of Thermopylae
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Battle during the person wars in which spartan troops fought to the death against a much larger persian force.
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Delian League
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Alliance of city-states in ancient Greece, with Athens as a leader.
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Pericles
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Athenian statesman
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Parthenon
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White marble temple built in acient Athens in honor of Athena.
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Socrates
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One of the most important thinkers of an Athenian.
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Plato
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A wealthy young aristocrat and the greatest of socrates's students.
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Aristotle
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One of Plato's students in the academy was a young man. He became a wise teacher he beilived everything had to be studied logically
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Pythagoras
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Was a philosopher. He belived everything could be studied mathematicly.
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