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World History ch4
CHAPTER 4 VOCABULARY
Question | Answer |
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Knossos | The rulers of the trading empire lived places |
shrines | areas dedicated to Gods and Goddesses |
Frescoes | watercolor paintings on wet plaster |
trojan war | took place around 1250 B.C. |
straits | narrow water passages between the red sea and the meditteranian sea. |
Homer | Lived around 750 B.C. |
Polis | city-state |
acropolis | high city, had the temples |
citizens | free residents who had responsibility |
monarchy | hereditary ruler excercises central power |
aristocracy | rule by a hereditary land holding elite |
oligarchy | power is in the hands of a small, wealthy elite. |
Sparta | north invaders conquered Loconia settled and made... |
athens | located in attica |
democracy | government by the people |
tyrants | people who gained power by force. |
legislature | lawmaking body. all male. |
Alliance | a formal agreement between 2 or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one anothers defense |
pericles | 460 b.c. - 429 b.c. was golden age for athens |
direct democracy | citizens take part directly in the day to day affairs of government. |
stipend | fixed salory |
jury | a panel of citizens who have the authority to make final judgements |
ostoracism | people could vote to banish authority or public authority who they saw as a threat |
philosophers | meaning lovers of wisdom |
logic | rational thinking |
rhetorics | art of speaking |
socrates | an athenian stonemason and shilosopher |
plato | one of socrates students |
aristotle | platos most famous student |
parthenon | a temple dedicated tot he goddess athena |
tragedies | plays that told stories of human suffering |
herodutus | the father of history |
alexander the great | architect of the new era |
phillip II | had lived in thebes and had come to admire greek culture hired aristotle. |
assassinated | murder of public figure |
assimilated | or absorbed. |
alexandria | at the very heart of hellenistic in egypt a home to millions |
pythagoras | derived a formula to calculate the sides of the right triangle. |
helicentric | sun centered |
archimedes | appled principals of hellenistic scientist |