World History Chapter 5-6-7 Greece and Rome

Study Terms for Greece and Rome

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