| A | B |
|---|
| century | a period of a hundred years |
| heroic | brave and bold |
| raid | to attack suddenly; a surprise attack |
| acropolis | a hill on which people in a Greek city built their main temple |
| aristocrat | a member of the powerful ruling class |
| independent | self-governing, seprate, free |
| polis | the Greek name for a city-state |
| theater | a place where people present plays |
| democracy | rule by the people |
| tyrant | a leader who rules by force and not by law |
| athenians | were the first Greeks to develop a democratic government |
| solon | a leader who helped to create the democratic form of government |
| assembly | a meeting; a group of people who meet to pass laws |
| direct democracy | a type of government in which each citizen votes on everything |
| lottery | a system of picking names from a container so that each person has an equal chance of being chosen |
| vote | to choose leaders and pass laws |
| bribe | to pay someone to something a certain way |
| jury | a group who listens to court cases and decides what is right |
| enslave | to force people to become slaves |
| helot | a slave in Sparta |
| migrate | to move from one place to another |
| architecture | the art of building |
| patriotic | loyal toward one's country;love for one's country |
| peloponnesus | The pennisula that Sparta was located on |
| fleet | a group of ships |
| outnumber | to have more soldiers, ships, or war machines than someone else has |
| independence | being free; being able to govern one's self |
| manuever | to move around |
| column | a tall solid structure used to support a building; a pillar |
| goddess | a woman god |
| chorus | a group of actors who stand on stage and talk about what is happening in a Greek play |
| comedy | a type of Greek play in which the hero has too much pride and is defeated in the end |
| philosopher | a person who seeks answers to what is true and what is good |
| astronomy | the study of the stars |
| bilogy | the study of living things |
| ethics | the study of what is good and bad |
| logic | the study of how to think |
| physics | the study of matter |
| politics | the study of the government |
| Phidias | he created a statue of Atehna for the Parthenon |
| Socrates | This philosopher had to drink poison becasue the Athenians thought he was unpatriotic |
| Plato | This philosopher wrote a book about a government ruled by philosophers |
| Aristotle | This philosopher thought that no government was perfect |
| geomotry | the study of the masurement of flat and round things |
| Hellenistic Age | The time between 323 BC and 31 BC when Greek culture influenced the world |
| pulley | a wheel for a rope to pass over |
