World History 1: ch 5 vocabulary

person who obtained power by force

• tyrant

• shrine

• stipend

• ostracism

was considered a military state in Greece and settled by the Dorans

• Sparta

• Athens

• Pericles

• Knossos

author of epic poems and wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey

• Homer

• Aristotle

• Perciles

• Hippocrates

son of Greek king Phillips II and created a large empire that reached India and Egypt

• Alexander

• Archimedes

• Hippocrates

• Herodotus

Greek known as the "Father of History" and collected information of past events

• Herodotus

• Hippocrates

• Socrates

• Homer

was the chief temple of the greek goddes Athena

• Parthenon

• Acropolis

• Phalanx

• Ostracism

was a city in Crete and considered the center of Minoan Civilization that dominated the Agean Sea

• Knossos

• Athens

• Alexandria

• Pythagoras

where the people actually take direct involvement in the day to day affairs of government

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• republic

• ostracism

led Athens ruing its golden age of cultural achievement under a democratic government

• Pericles

• Acropolis

• Knossos

• Pythagoras

high and most fortified point within a greek city-state

• acropolis

• aristocracy

• oligarchy

• Heliocentric