Chapter 5 Set 1
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- 4 characteristics of a polis
- They covered a small area of land, had an agora, fort is built on an acropolis, & most cities had a population fewer than 10,000 people
- democracy
- government which citizens take part
- Main aspects of Greek culture
- Didn't emphasized high standards of personal mortality—pleasing gods was important, had myths, oracles, Olympic Games, Few people could write so many communication was oral
- hoplite
- heavily armed Greek infantry who carried long spears and fought closely spaced rows
- acropolis
- hill or mountains in Greece that included a fort as well as temples & other public buildings
- polis
- Greek word for city-state, which developed around a central fort
- Greek Geography
- Mountains don't protect from invaders, surrounded by the Meditterraean Sea, and had long uneven coastlines
- Minoans
- earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000BC
- popular governmnet
- idea that people can and should rule themselves
- Mycenaeans
- civilization on the Greek mainland that conquered the Minoans in Crete in about 1400BC
- Homer
- blind poet who wrote Iliad and Odyssey
- tyrants
- in ancient Greece, rulers who seized power by force, but who ruled with the people's support; later came to refer to rulers who exercise brutal and oppressive power
- agora
- market place in a city-state in Greece