Chapter 3 Vocab
What is a tyrant?
Rulers who seized power by force from aristocrats
_______ was one of the richest city-states.
Milan
Spain
What is an oracle?
A sacred shrine in ancient Greece where a god was said to reveal the future through a priest.
What is a burgher?
A member of the middle class.
What was the first French settlement in North America?
Quebec
What was the Hellenistic Era?
The age of Alexander the Great; period when the Greek language and ideas were carried to the non-Greek world.
What is vernacular?
The language of everyday speech in a particular region.
List two out of four things that came to the Americas as a result of the Colombian Exchange.
Wheat, citrus fruit, honeybees, cattle & horses.
What is a polis?
The early Greek city-state, consisting of a city or town and its surrounding countryside.
Name two of the five humanities.
Grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history.
Who were the Mulattoes?
People of mixed African and European descent.
What is a helot?
In ancient Sparta, a captive person who was forced to work for the conqueror.
Who was the "model Renaissance man"?
Leonardo da Vinci
What is the Gold Coast?
A nickname Europe gave to the west African Coast.