Vocab
rational thinking
logic
Conquered Persia and parts of India
Alexander the Great
Disliked Democracy and argued for logic
Socrates
"People rule"
Democracy
panel of citizens
jury
warrior society, rival to Athens
Sparta
Plato
Writer of the Iliad and Odyssey
Homer
lawmaking body
legislature
"Father of History"
Herodotus
Philosophy where one should avoid desires and accept whatever happens in life
Stoicism
Absorbed Greek Ideas
Assimilation
art of skillful speaking
rhetoric
war between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
Physician who studied diseases and cures
Hippocrates
Home of the gods
Mount Olympus
Delian League
Athenian statemen who argued for direct democracy
Pericles
Famous scientist who used physics
Archimedes
"Built on top of a hill" building in Athens
Acropolis