| A | B |
|---|
| Minoans | a seafaring trading people from 2000 to 1400 |
| Aegean Sea | transportation route for the greek |
| Knossos | minoan capital city |
| mycenean | indo-eurpeoan people settled the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C. |
| Trojan War | fought around 1200 B.C in mycenean fought the city of troy |
| Dorian | migrated to mainland Greece |
| homer | blind story teller |
| epic | narrative poem celebrating heroes |
| myth | stories about their Gods |
| Acropolis | fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek |
| monarchy | govt with power in the hands of a single person |
| Aristocracy | govt held by nobility |
| king Minos | King of Minoa |
| oligarchy | govt ruled by few people |
| phalanx | a military formation of soldiers |
| Draco | developed legal code |
| Solon | social gatherings of intellectuals and artist |
| cleisthenes | organized citizens groups |
| Sparta | military state in southern part of Peloponnesus |
| Athens | city state was a democracy |
| helot | peasant bound to land |
| democracy | govt ontrolled by citizens |
| tyrant | powerful individual who gained control of city-state's government |
| Persian War | city- state battled Persian Empire |
| Thermopylae | battle between King Leonidas Of Sparta and the Persian empire Xerxes |
| Salamis | Battle between the Delian league and Persian empire |
| Pericles | was the leader of Athens |
| Peloponnessian War | war between Athens and Sparta |
| Socrates | believes absolute standard did exist between truth and justice |
| Aristotle | nature of world and of human belief , thought, and knowledge |
| Classical arts | portray ideas of beauty, not realism |
| Philosopher | a thinker who usss logic reasons to investigate the nature of the universe |
| tragedy | was serius drama about common themes such as love |
| comedies | humorous from of drama that includes slaptick and satire |
| Aeschylus | playwright |
| sophocles | playwright |
| Thucydides | historian of classicalc age |
| Phillip II | King of Macedonia |
| Alexander the Great | son of King Phillip who ruled Macedonia and after his fathers death |
| Darius III | Persian King that was defeated by Alexander |
| Hellenistic | combination greek and Orientl cultures |
| Euclid | mathematician |
| Stocism | belief that people should live virtuous lives in harmony with the will of God |
