Chapter 5 set 1
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- Homer
- blind poet, wrote the Odyssey and Illiad
- Greek Geography
- short rivers, separating mts., no major river, but has Mediterranean Sea
- Popular Government
- The idea of which people can and should rule themselves
- Acropolis
- A high hill or mt. in Greece that included a fort as wekk as temples and other public buildings
- Main aspects of Greek culture
- explained the world with myths, had epics, (oracles and Olympic Games to honor gods)
- Mycenaeans
- Civilizations on the Greek mainland that conquered the Minoans in Crete in about 1400 B.C.
- Democracy
- A government which citizens take part
- 4 characteristics of a polis
- scovered small area of land, had an agora, small pop., built on a acropolis
- Agora
- marketplace
- Hoplite
- Nonaristocratic soldiers, overthere the "nobles" (aristocrats)
- Polis
- greek word for the city-state, which develpoed around a central fort
- Tyrants
- Leaders who gain power illegally, but had the people's support