| A | B |
|---|
| Minoans | life tied to the sea |
| Mycenaean | were the first Greeks because of their language |
| agora | market place, people gossiped |
| direct democracy | all eligible people vote |
| Peloponnesian War | Athens surrendered to Sparta |
| Plato | believed philosophers should rule; not democracy |
| Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides | Greek writers of tragedies |
| Macedonia king conquered every Greek city but Sparta | Phillip II |
| Epicureans | argued that people should use reason to learn about the world |
| Cleisthenes | made tribes, not families, basis for election |
| Socratic Method | learning through questions |
| Sappho | Greek poet - woman - love |
| polis | basic political unit in Greece |
| Delian League | Alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens |
| Aristotle | focused on reason and logic to learn; enhanced science |
| Eratosthenes | measured circumference of the earth |
| Archon | chief of state in Athens |
| Xerxes | son of Darius, mounted 2nd Persian invasion |
| Pericles | helped rebuild Athens; built Parthenon |
| Peloponnesian League | Alliance centered on Sparta |
| Phalanx | military formation |
| plague | weakened Athens during Peloponnesian War |
| Hoplites | foot soldiers |
| Acropolis | walled high area surrounding a polic |
| Hubris | great pride |
| Draco | wrote laws with harsh punishment |
| Solon | wrote laws that appealed to nobles and ordinary people; all men coulees serve jury |
| Peisistratus | tyrant who weakened aristocracy |
