| A | B |
|---|
| Athena | Goddess of War |
| Homer | Writer who wrote two great epics about quest and mythology |
| Zeus | Olympics were held in his honor |
| Polis | Greek term meaning "city-state" |
| Socrates | Developed a method of questioning to arrive at the truth |
| Plato | Founder of the "Academy" in Athens |
| Hellenized | to adopt Greek customs and ways of life |
| Democracy | government run directly or indirectly by the people who live under it |
| Theocracy | Government run by a religious leader |
| Aristotle | Alexander the Great's tutor |
| Aristocrats | Members of the upper class |
| Oligarchy | a few wealthy people hold power over the larger group of citizens |
| Peloponnesus | A peninsula of southern Greece |
| Pericles | Led Athens through the Golden Age |
| Zoroaster | Persian prophet, preached the world was divided by a struggle between good and evil |
| Zoroastrianism | Religion of Persia |
| Persian Empire | Developed an imperial bureaucracy and road system |
| Zagros Mountains | Located in Persian Empire |
| Salamis | Greeks defeated Persians here |
| Peloponnesian Wars | Athens and Sparta fought for dominance |
