| A | B |
|---|
| monarchy | government where kings or queens have power |
| aristocracy | rule by landholding elite |
| oligarchy | power in the hands of small powerful elite (business class) |
| helots | state owned slaves |
| tyrants | gained power by force |
| phalanx | massive formation of soldiers |
| depotism | single powerful leader |
| mob rule | democracy becomes corrupted = chaos |
| democracy | more people participate in government |
| tyranny | 1 leader who misuses power |
| Minoans | Early Greek civilization based on trade- |
| Mycenae | seatraders who conquered mainland |
| Homer | wrote the Odyssey |
| Plato | theory of government cycles |
| Strait of Salamis | place where the Atheanians sank the Persian ships |
| alliance | formal agreement between 2 or more nations to come to one anothers defence |
| Delian league | alliance with other Greek city states |
| Direct Democracy | large # of citizens take part in day to day affairs of government |
| stipend | fee paid to citizens who held public office |
| ostracism | send away public figure (punishment) |
| Pericles | Athenian leader who believed in duties of citizenship |
| Aspasia | woman who helped turn Athens into a cultural center |
| Peloponnesian War | Civil War in Greece |
| Greek tragedy | story of human suffering that ended in disaster |
| Plato | philosopher who hated democracy, wanted ideal society |
| Socrates | philosopher from Athens |
| Greek Drama | early plays, honored Dionysus |
| Greek comedy | humorus plays that mocked people or customs |
| Herodotus | wrote Greek history |
| Thucydides | wrote about the Peloponessian war |
| Aristotle | Plato's student- Lyceum |
| Golden Mean | Aristltle- moderation is the key |
| rhetoric | artful speaking |
| logic | Aristotle- rational thinking |
| Socratic method | constant questions- seek truth |
| Alexander The Great | conquered Greece |
| Alexandria | City in Egypt |
| Hellenistic Civilization | Armies, archtects, artists |
| Archimedes | Applied physics to pracitcal inventions |
| pythagorus | math, angles |
| aristarchus | Earth is Heliocentric (sun centered) |
| Hippocrates | father of medicine |
