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| crete | Greek Island in the Mediterranean Sea home to the Minoan civilization. |
| polis | a Greek city state- the fundamental political unit of ancient Greece after about 750 BC |
| Acropolis | a fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city |
| Monarchy | a government in which power is in the hands of a single person, usually a king or queen. |
| Aristocracy | a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility |
| Oligarchy | a government in which power is in the hands of a few people- especially one in which rule is based upon wealth. |
| Tyrant | in ancient Greece, a powerful individual who gained control of a city state’s government by appealing to the poor for support. |
| Democracy | a government controlled by its citizens either directly or through representatives. |
| Direct democracy | a government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives. |
| Philosophers | thinkers who use logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and morality. |
| Macedonia | an ancient kingdom north of Greece, whose ruler Philip II conquered Greece in 338 BC. |
| Hellenistic | relating to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century BC. |
| Alexandria | African city that became the center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization |
| Euclid | a highly regarded mathematician who published the Elements which has become the basis for courses in geometry. |
| Archimedes | a Hellenistic scientist that accurately estimated the circumference of a circle while explaining the law of the lever and inventing the compound pulley. |
