6th The Ancient World Chapter 6 (Park 2)
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- tragedy
- a type of serious drama that usually ends in disaster for the main character
- Aeschylus
- One of the writers of tragedies in Ancient Greece
- assassinate
- to murder for political reasons
- barbarian
- a wild uncivilized person
- Sophocles
- wrote Greek tragedies
- Aristophanes
- best known Greek comic playwright
- Alexander the Great
- King of Macedonia from 336 to 326 B.C., conquered Persia, Egypt, and invaded India
- Eratosthenes
- Greek scientist, calculated the distance around the Earth
- philosopher
- someone who uses reason to understand the world; in Greece, the earliest philosophers used reason to explain natural events
- Hellenistic
- describing Greek history of culture after the death of Alexander the Great including the three main kingdoms formed by the break up of Alexander the Great
- Aristotle
- one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers, pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great
- King Philip
- Alexander the Great's father, united Macedonia
- Euclid
- Greek mathematician, helped expand a the branch of mathematics called geometry
- Plato
- ancient Athenian philosopher, founded a school called The Academy, wrote The Republic (society should be made of three groups: workers, soldiers, philosophers), Socrates student
- Socrates
- ancient Athenian philosopher, developed and used the Socratic method (questioning to challenge beliefs); sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth
- Euripides
- one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC)
- Aristarchus
- Greek scientist, concluded that the Earth revolved around the sun