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| Mycenaeans | people who settled on the greek mainland at about 2000BC |
| Trojan Wars | A war fought against troy at about 1200BC |
| Dorians | spoke a dialect of greek and were distant relatives of the bronze age greeks |
| Homer | Greeks greates story teller |
| Epics | narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds |
| Myths | tradtional stories about the greek gods |
| Polis | a city state include numerous villages |
| Acropolis | a building on a fortified hiltop usaully home to fewer than 20,000 people |
| Monarchy | a rulership by kings or monarchs |
| Aristocracy | a government ruled by a small group of noble, land owning people |
| Oligarcy | a government ruled by a few powerful people |
| Phalanx | a fearsome fighting formation that was the most power formation |
| Tyrant | powerfull individuals who gained control of government by appealing to the poor |
| Helot | peasents forced to stay on the land that they worked |
| Democracy | a government ruled by the people |
| Persain Wars | a battle between the greeks and persianswhen the Greeks revolted against the persians |
| Direct Democracy | a form of government in which citizens rule directly and through representatives |
| Classical art | idealized art |
| Tragety | a serious drama about about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal |
| Comedy | in contrast to the tragedies comedies have slapstick situations and crued humor |
| Peloponnesian War | a war between two-city states at about 431BC |
| Philosophers | greek thinkers or also known as "lovers of wisdom" |
| Socrates | one of the strongest critics of the Sophist |
| Plato | a student of Socrates and was aprproximetly 28 years old when his teachr died |
| Aristotle | questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought and knowledgement |
| Philip II | king of Macedonia |
| Macedonia | a kingdom north of greece . had rough mountains and cold climates |
| Demosthenes | athens orator. tried to warn greeks of the threat philip and his army posed |
| Alexzander the Great | with the support of the army he declared himself king of macedonia. |
| Darus III | persian king who vowed to crush the macedonians |
| Hellenistic | a blended culture of Greek, Egyptian, Persian and Indian |
| Alexandria | an african city that became the foremost center of commerce and hellenistic civilization |
| Euclid | Compiled a geometry text used by Erasthenes and Aristarchus |
| Archimedes | an important hellenistic scientist of syracuse. He accuratly estimated the value of pi |
| Colossus of Rhodes | a bronze statue that stood more than 100ft high. it was the largest hellenistic staute made |
