Vocab 1
being brave and bold
A type of government in which each citizen votes on everything
Direct Democracy
A meeting
Assembly
A hill on which the people in a Greek city built their main template
Acropolis
The art of building
Architecture
Enslave
A slave in Sparta
Helot
Independence
A group who listens to court cases and decides the outcome
Jury
Being loyal toward one's country
To move around easily
Maneuver
A tall post used to support a building
Column
The greek name for a city-state
Polis
Group of ships
Fleet
A rule by the people
Democracy
Astronomy
A leader who rules by force and not by law
Tyrant
A person who tries to find truth by asking questions
Philosopher
The study of living things
Biology
The study of whats right and wrong
Ethics
A female god
The science of thinking
Goddess
Logic
The science of matter and energy
The work of government
Physics
Politics
A system of picking names from a container so that each person has an equal chance of being chose
The study of the measurements of flat and round things
Lottery
Geometry
The blend of Western and Eastern cultures made possible by Alexander the Great
Hellenism
A member of the powerful ruling class
The time between 323 B.C. and 31 B.C., when Greal culture influenced the world.
Aristocrat
Hellenistic Age