Chapter 5 Set 1
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- Characteristics of Polis
- small area of land; small popluation; built around a fort; had an agora or marketplace
- hoplite
- heavily armed Greek infantry who carried long spears and fought in closely spaced rows
- Greek geography
- short rivers that did not help with travel or trade
- democracy
- government in which people take part
- Mycenaeans
- civilization on the greek mainland that conquered the Minoans in Crete in about 1400 B.C.
- popular government
- the idea that people can and should rule themselves
- homer
- poet who wrote the epics Iliad and the Odyssey
- polis
- greek word for city- states, which developed around a central fort
- agora
- marketplace in a city-state in Greece
- main aspect of Greek culture
- religion, language, and trade
- acropolis
- hill or mountain in Greece that included a fort as well as temples and other public buildings
- Minoans
- earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.
- tyrants
- people who gained power illegally but were supported by the people. later it came to mean brutal and opressive power