Ancient Greece Vocabulary

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  1. 4. a member of a Hellenic people speaking the Doric dialect of Greek, thought to have entered Greece from the north c. 1100 BC. They settled in Peloponnesus and later colonized Sicily and southern Italy.
  2. 6. created a vast empire that stretched from Macedonia to Egypt and from Greece to part of India
  3. 7. most famous work is the Republic
  4. 9. the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices.
  5. 11. relating to or denoting a Bronze Age civilization centered on Crete ( c. 3000–1050 BC), its people, or its language.
  6. 12. a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes.
  7. 13. A greek poet who is credited as the author of the Illiad and odyssey
  8. 14. credited with restoring internal peace to his country
  9. 15. a fusion of the ancient Greek world with that of Western Asian, Northeastern African, and Southwestern Asian
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  1. 1. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
  2. 2. a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta
  3. 3. an ancient Greek philosopher who was known for his association with the Socratic method of question and answer
  4. 5. a body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation.
  5. 8. relating to or denoting a late Bronze Age civilization in Greece represented by finds at Mycenae and other ancient cities of Peloponnesus.
  6. 10. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato's theory of forms.
  7. 14. series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century