| A | B |
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| Philosopher | Someone who seeks to understand and explain life. |
| Logic | Rational thinking |
| Rhetoric | The art of skillful speaking |
| Socrates | Famous Greek philosopher, believed in questioning tradition to acheive knowledge. Was sentanced to the death penalty. |
| Plato | Student of Socrates, believed that the greek democracy was flawed. |
| Aristotle | Greek Philosipher, believed that in only a small number of well qualified men to run the government. |
| Partheon | Temple dedicated to the godess Athena. Shaped like a rectangle with tall walls |
| Tragedy | A play about suffering (often ending in disaster) |
| Comedy | A play that mocked people or social customs |
| Herodotus | Greek historian, often called, "The Father of History" |
| Alexander the Great | Son of Phillip II, Extended the Macedonian empire to EPIC proportions |
| Phillip the Second | leader of macedonia, eventually became ruler of all of Greece in 338 B.C. |
| Assasination | Murder of a public official, usually for political reasons |
| Assimilate | To absorb or adopt another culture |
| Alexandria | An ancient Hellenistic city in Egypt |
| Pythagoras | Famous methematician, derived formula for finding sides of triangles. |
| Heliocentric | Based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe |
| Archemedes | Hellenistic Scientist, mastered the use of simple machines. |
| Hippocrates | Greek Physician, studied the causes of illness and looked for cures. |
