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| Direct Democracy | a form of democracy in which citizens gather together to vote on laws and policies |
| Golden Age | a period of great cultural achievement |
| Immortal | to live forever |
| Mythology | a collection of stories that explains events, beliefs, or actions |
| Plague | a disease that causes many deaths |
| Siege | a military tactic in which troops surround a city with soldiers in an attempt to take control of it |
| Truce | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Catapult | a weapon that hurls large stones |
| Cosmopolitan | worldly |
| Hellenistic | relating to Greek history or culture |
| Phalanx | in ancient Greece and Rome, a battle formation in which soldiers stood close together to protect themselves from enemy attack |
| Comedy | a humorous form of Greek drama that often mocked famous people |
| Jury | a group of people chosen to make a decision based on evidence presented in a trial |
| Philosophy | the study of the universe and our place in it |
| Representative Democracy | a form of democracy in which people are elected to vote on the citizens' behalf |
| Tragedy | a serious form of Greek drama in which characters suffer and endure sorrowful events |
| Parthenon | a temple that was dedicated to Athens's goddess, Athena |
| Delian League | an anti-Persian alliance formed by Athens and the other city-states |
| Peloponnesian War | war between Athens and Sparta and their allies |
| Alexander the Great | conquered the Persian Empire; king of Macedonia and general of the army |
| Aesop | Greek writer of fables, he was an enslaved person |
| Aristotle | Alexander the Greats tutor; he searched for understanding by examining the world closely |
| Homer | famous writer of epic poetry; he wrote the lliad and the Odyssey (about the Trojan War) |
