Vocab
A city & its surrounding territory that is independent.
What is a city-state?
To surround and try to capture.
What is to lay siege to?
Lack of food; time of starving.
What is famine?
Believed we learn thruth about the world by observing it.
Who was Aristotle?
Wrote about his conversations with Socrates.
Who was Plato?
The two main city-states of Greece.
What were Athens and Sparta?
Government by a king, queen, emperor, etc.
What is a monarchy?
Political rule by a small group.
What is an oligarchy?
A priest or other person through whom the gods were thought to send a message.
What is an oracle?
Was the Athens' leader responsible for accomplishments of the Golden Age.
Who was Pericles?
Was a Greek epic poet.
Who was Homer?
These two sides fought each other in the Peloponnesian War.
Who was Athens and Sparta?
Lover of wisdom.
What is a philosopher?
Narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
A conversation.
What is dialogue?
The king who gave law to Sparta.
Who was Lycurgus?
Was called "the Great" and spread Hellenic culture over the Middle East.
Who was Alexander?
This is a formal defense.
What is an "apology?"
Political rule by all of the people governed.
What is a democracy?
A serious play or story having an unhappy ending.
What is a tragedy?
Heavily armed infantry soldier in ancient Greece.
What is a hoplite?
Stopped civil war between the rich and poor in Athens.
Who was Solon?
Wrote the first laws of Athens.
Who was Draco?
An ignorant belief or trust in magic.
What is a superstition?
Cruel or harsh.
What is draconian?
A fleet of small ships.
What is a flotilla?
A form of speaking a language belonging to a certain group.
What is dialect?
The father of philosophy.
Who was Socrates?
The son of Darius and was the king of Persia. Led the second great invasion of Greece.
Who was Xerxes?
The form of government that best describes Athens.
What was democracy?