Chapter 5 Set 1
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- Hoplite
- heavily armed Greek infantry who carried long spears and fought in closely spaced rows
- 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
- Acropolis
- a high hill that marked the center of ancient Athens
- Mycenaeans
- civilization on the Greek mainland that conquered the Minoans in Crete in about 1400 B.C.
- 4 characteristics of a polis
- covered a small area of land, populated by less than 10,000, built on an acropolis, and each city-state had an agora
- Greek geography
- Greece had short rivers that were not used for travel and trade. It had a penninsula that was bordered by the Aegean and Ionian Seas. Mountain ranges seperated city-states but let in invaders
- democracy
- government in which citizens take part
- Minoans
- earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.
- Homer
- a blind poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
- popular government
- idea that people can and should rule themselves
- polis
- Greek word for city-state, which developed around a central fort
- Main aspects of Greek culture
- religion was important, myths played a major role, pleasing the gods was a part of daily life, women did not have as many rights
- agora
- marketplace in a city-state in Greece