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