Chapter 5 vocab

Question 1

Mycenaean

Answer 1

People who settled on the Greek main land around 2000 B.C.

Question 2

Trojan war

Answer 2

The Mycenaean’s fought a ten year war with troy

Question 3

Dorian

Answer 3

People who moved into the war-torn countryside

Question 4

Homer

Answer 4

Blind storyteller

Question 5

Epic

Answer 5

Native poems celebrating heroic deeds

Question 6

Myth

Answer 6

Traditional stories, about their god

Question 7

Polis

Answer 7

750 B.C. city state

Question 8

Acropolis

Answer 8

Agora, or marketplace, or fortified hill top

Question 9

Monarchy

Answer 9

single ruler like a king

Question 10

Aristocracy

Answer 10

Small group of noble land owning farmers

Question 11

Oligarchy

Answer 11

Government ruled by a few powerful people

Question 12

Tyrant

Answer 12

a cruel and oppressive ruler

Question 13

Democracy

Answer 13

Ruled by the people

Question 14

Helot

Answer 14

peasants forced to say on the land they worked

Question 15

Phalax

Answer 15

Most powerful fighting force

Question 16

Persian War

Answer 16

Started between the Greece and the Persian Empire

Question 17

Direct Democracy

Answer 17

Citizens ruled directly and not through representatives

Question 18

Classical Art

Answer 18

Use of harmony, order, balance, and proportion became the standard

Question 19

Tragedy

Answer 19

Serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, and betrayal

Question 20

Comedy

Answer 20

Crude humor

Question 21

Peloponnesian War

Answer 21

War between Athens and Sparta

Question 22

Philosopher

Answer 22

Lovers of wisdom

Question 23

Socrates

Answer 23

Believed in absolute standared of justice

Question 24

Plato

Answer 24

A student of Socrates

Question 25

Aristotle

Answer 25

Questioned the nature of the world and human belif

Question 26

Philip lI

Answer 26

Dreamed of taking over Greece

Question 27

Macedonia

Answer 27

Kingdom located just north of Greece

Question 28

Alexander the Great

Answer 28

20 year old king

Question 29

Darius III

Answer 29

Vowed to crush invaders

Question 30

Hellenistic

Answer 30

Culture blend between Egyptian, Persian, and indian

Question 31

Alexandra

Answer 31

Foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization

Question 32

Euclid

Answer 32

Highly regarded mathmatician

Question 33

Archimedes

Answer 33

Hellenistic scientist Studied at Alexandra

Question 34

Colossus of Rhodes

Answer 34

Bronze statue stood more than 100 feet high