Chapter 5 Set 2
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- ethics
- something that deals with what is good and bad and moral duty.
- Pericles
- a great general,orator, and statesman who held public office or was active in public life from 461 BC to 429 BC.
- Draco
- the archon who is believed to have created Athen's first written law code.
- Delian League
- an alliance of city-states who each contributed money or ships.
- Solon
- the archon who settled the disputes between creditors and debtors by erasing the debts of the poor and outlawing slavery.
- Cleisthenes
- the person who seized power and turned Athen's governmental system into a democracy.
- Persian wars
- the series of conflicts that erupted between Greece and Persia.
- Athens
- Located on the Attic peninsula. City that was a typical polis built aroudn the rocky hill of the Acropolis.
- terracing
- carving small, flat plots of land from hillsides
- Peloponnesian War
- The war between Athens and Sparta.
- Ephors
- people who made sure that the kind stayed within the law
- Pedagogue
- the male slave who taught boys manners
- rhetoric
- the study of oratory, or public speaking, and debating.
- Peisistratus
- the tyrant that ruled Athens and improved the economy but clashed with the nobles.
- Spartan Government
- had two kings at the head of the government. One led the army and the other took care of domestic matters.
- representative democracy
- a form of government where all the citizens elect representatives to govern for them.
- direct democracy
- a form of government where all citizens participate directly in making decisions
- Results of the Peloponnesian War
- Sparta had a stronger army and started to invade Athens but the Athenians had a stronger navy and resisted the Spartans attempts to starve them.
- Macedonia
- one of the places conquered by Xerxes
- Xerxes
- the son of Darius that led a huge Persian army and fleet against Greece.
- Sparta
- warrior city-state founded my invaders
- Battle of Thermopylae
- the battle in which a small force led by 300 Spartans met several Persians going through Thermopylae, the mountain pass.
- sophists
- the man who opened schools for older boys
- Helots
- the people who were conquered from the invaders from Peloponnesus