Ch3

Question 0

Author of the Epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

Question 1

Early civilization in the Aegean region based on the island of Crete

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Minoan

Question 2

patron of the city of Athens; goddess of wisdom

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Athena

Question 3

“city-state”; basic political unit of Greece

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Polis

Question 4

government headed by a tyrant who gained complete control of it—usually by force

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Tyranny

Question 5

chief magistrate of the Athenian council of nobles

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Archon

Question 6

men who sought the answers to the basic questions of life through human reasoning ability

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Philosophers

Question 7

Writer of Greek tragedies

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Sophocles

Question 8

early Greek civilization on the mainland of Greece

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Mycenaen

Question 9

King of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus

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Zeus

Question 10

having human forms or attributes

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Anthropomorphic

Question 11

Ruled by one

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Monarchy

Question 12

Ruled by the people

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Democracy

Question 13

United the various city-states of Greece

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Pericles

Question 14

Believed that ignorance produced evil

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Socrates

Question 15

Tutor to Alexander the Great and believed that reality was in the physical world

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Aristotle

Question 16

a three-step logical process of thinking

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Syllogism

Question 17

Father of Medicine.

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Hippocrates

Question 18

Most spectacular of the Greek temples

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Parthenon

Question 19

Established a school of philosophy and science called the Academy of Athens

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Plato

Question 20

The breakdown of government and order

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Anarchy

Question 21

Concluded that the universe could be understood in mathematical terms

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Pythagoras