Ancient Greece Vocab I
Terms
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- peninsula
- land surrounded by water on 3 sides
- Aegean Sea
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sea east of Greece
pronounced A-G-N-C - trireme
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battleship with 3 tiers of oars and an underwater spike to sink enemy ships
pronounced try-reem - polis
- city on a hill and the surrounding land it rules; has its own government (also called city state)
- Mediterranean Sea
- sea southwest of Greece between Europe and Africa
- agora
- marketplace in the center of a Greek city
- democracy
- government where the people rule
- acropolis
- fort on a high hill in the center of a polis
- philosophy
- the way someone thinks or feels about an issue
- myth
- a traditional story that explains something; a legend