Greece Review
Get to know ancient Greece. Try to understand key terms and people.
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- Democracy
- the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
- Tyranny
- a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- Agora
- a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece
- Hellenistic
- relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civiliHzation, relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civiliHzation
- Oligarchy
- a political system governed by a few people
- Themistocles
- Athenian statesman who persuaded Athens to build a navy and then led it to victory over the Persians (527-460 BC)
- City-state
- area under one government
- Leonidas
- king of Sparta and hero of the battle of Thermopylae where he was killed by the Persians (died in 480 BC)
- Xerxes
- Persian leader who invaded Greece
- Darius
- The great king of Persia. He was able to become a king after a year of a civil war following the death of someone. He is responsible for the expansion of Persia. He made a province in western India and expanded Persia as far north as Macedonia
- Tribute
- payment by one nation for protection by another