Chapter 5 Set 1
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- Mycenaeans
- civilization on the Greek mainland that conquered the Minoans in Crete in about 1400 B.C.
- tyrants
- in ancient Greece, rulers who seized power by force but who ruled with the people's support
- Greek Geography
- Greece has an uneven coastline that brings most of the mainland close to the ocean, Greece does not have a main river although it is surrounded by the ocean and the Mediterranean, and short mountain ranges
- Homer
- blind poet who wrote Iliad and the Odyssey
- 4 characteristics of a polis
- covered a small area of land, had a population of fewer then 10,000,built on an acropolis, and had an agora
- Minoans
- earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.
- democracy
- government in which citizens take part
- popular government
- idea that people can and should run themselves
- acropolis
- hill or mountain in Greece that included a fort as well as temples and other public buildings
- polis
- Greek word for city-state, which developed around a central fort
- hoplite
- heavily armed Greek infantry who carried long spears and fought in closely spaced rows
- agora
- marketplace in a city-state in Greece
- main aspects of Greek culture
- geographical territory, community, and political and economic independence