| A | B |
|---|
| Plato | a famous Greek thinker |
| Agora | a Greek outdoor market place |
| Plunder | valueables seized in war time |
| Seas that border Greese | Meditarranean Sea; Aegean Sea; Ionian Sea |
| Trojan War | Fought between Greese and Troy |
| Myths | traditional made up stories |
| Homer | a blind poet |
| Mount Olympus | the house of the gods |
| immortal | able to live forever with speacial powers |
| Olympic Games | athletic contest honnering the god Zeus; these contest are held in olympia every 4 years |
| aristocracy | a form of government were they were controlled by wealthy privileged families |
| democracy | government by the people |
| assembly | the gathering of citizens |
| Pericles | the great leader of Athens |
| Sparta | located in the southern part of Greece |
| helots | slaves |
| marathon | the longest olympic race |
| philosopher | studies truth and knowledge |
| Socrates | a philosopher who taught people to think by asking question |
| Plato | philosopher who did not believe in democracy |
| Aristotle | a philosopher that was Platos student that established a school in Athens |
| plague | fast spreading |
| mercinaries | hired soldiers |
| Thebes | a Greek city that defeated the Spartan Army |
| Helenistic Age | a civilization blend of Greek and Asian cultures |
| Alexander the Great | led the Persian Army and became king at the age of 20 |
| Hippocrates | the father of medicine |
| Archimedes | a famous inventor and mathmatician |
| Pythogoras | created important theories about numbers and music |
| Euclid | most important mathmatician |
