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| Minoan | the first advanced civilization of the Aegean region |
| agora | the Greek marketplace |
| polis | the Greek word for city -state |
| Knossos | major city of the Minoan civilization |
| Mycenean | Aegean civilization that fought in the Trojan War |
| aristocrats | highest class of people in ancient Greece |
| citizens of Athens | had to be property owners, born in Athens or males |
| slaves | the lowest class of people in ancient Greece |
| epic poem | a long narritive poem |
| Homer | wrote the Illiad |
| Illiad | poem about he Trojan War |
| Dorians | first true Greeks used iron weapons to conquer the Myceneans |
| citizen | resident with rights |
| Athens | Greek city-state where democracy developed |
| Golden Age | a preiod of history where Athens developed its greatest achievements |
| philosophy | the study of ideas knowlege and ethics |
| Socrates | the philosopher who roamed Athens asking questions that helped people to better know themselves |
| Plato | the Greek philosopher who beelieved that government should be led by the wisest |
| legislative | lawmaking branch of our government |
| executive | branch of our government headed by the president |
| judicial | branch of our government that interprets the laws |
| monarchy | the type of government where the king has all the power |
| oligarchy | the type of government wher a small group of people have all the power |
| democracy | type of government where the people have the power top govern |
| representative democracy | type of government where people vote for representatives to run their government |
| direct democracy | type of government where people vote directly on laws |
| constitution | supreme law of the land |
| Senate and House of Representatives | the two houses of Congress |
