Ch 5 Vocab Section1-3

Question 1

An indo-European person who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 BC

Answer 1

Mycenaean

Question 2

A war, fought around 1200 BC, in which an army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy in Anatolia

Answer 2

Trojan war

Question 3

A Greek speaking people that, according to tradition, migrated into mainland Greece after destruction of the mycenaean civilization

Answer 3

Dorian

Question 4

Greatest storyteller, was a blind man

Answer 4

Homer

Question 5

Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds

Answer 5

Epics

Question 6

A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of society

Answer 6

Myth

Question 7

A Greek city state, the fundamental political unit of Ancient Greece after about 270 BC

Answer 7

Polis

Question 8

A fortified hilltop in an Ancient Greek city

Answer 8

Acropolis

Question 9

A government in which power is in the hands of heredity ruling class or nobility

Answer 9

Aristocracy

Question 10

A government in which power is in the hands of a few people, especially one in which rule is based upon wealth

Answer 10

Oligarchy

Question 11

In Ancient Greece, a powerful individual who gained control of a city states government by appealing to the poor for support

Answer 11

Tyrants

Question 12

A government controlled by its citizens, either directly gh representatives

Answer 12

Democracy

Question 13

Isn’t he society of ancient Sparta, a peasant bound to the land

Answer 13

Helot

Question 14

A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields

Answer 14

Phalanx

Question 15

A series of wars in the fifth century BC, in which Greek city-states battled the Persian empire

Answer 15

Persian war

Question 16

A government in which citizens rule directly rather than through representatives

Answer 16

Direct democracy

Question 17

The art of Ancient Greece and Rome, on which harmony, order, and proportion were emphasized

Answer 17

Classical art

Question 18

A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character

Answer 18

Tragedy

Question 19

A humorous form of drama that often includes slapstick and satire

Answer 19

Comedy

Question 20

A war, lasting from 431 to 404 BC, in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies

Answer 20

Peloponnesian war

Question 21

A thinker who uses logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society, and morality

Answer 21

Philosopher

Question 22

Ancient Athenian philosopher, represented in the writings of his disciple Plato

Answer 22

Socrates

Question 23

A student of Socrates, wrote about Socrates

Answer 23

Plato

Question 24

A philosopher that questioned the nature o the world and of human belief, thought, and knowledge

Answer 24

Aristotle