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Ancient Greece Vocabulary List
Be sure to thoroughly define each of the terms below on note cards. Use your notes from
class first then refer to your online text. The internet will have information you will not
need to know therefore it is not a great resource.
Miscellaneous
1.
Geography & its effect
on settlement and
Greek life
2.
Colonization: reasons
and process
3.
Agora
Government
4.
Monarchy
5.
Tyranny
6.
Spartan Oligarchy
7.
Aristocrat
8.
Athenian Democracy
Warfare
9.
The Trojan War
10. Hellespont
11. Homer
12. Persian Wars
13. Phalanx
14. Battle of Marathon:
outcome and Greek
strategy
15. Darius
16. Miltiades
17. Battle of
Thermopylae: outcome
and Greek strategy
18. Xerxes
19. Leonidas
20. Battle of Salamis:
outcome and Greek
strategy
21. Themistocles
22. The Peloponnesian
War: outcome and
effects
23. Pericles
24. Alexander the Great
and his
accomplishments
Golden Age of Athens
25. Socrates
26. Plato
27. Thucydides
28. Herodotus
29. Pythagoras
30. Parthenon/Acropolis
Architecture
31. Doric Architecture
32. Ionic Architecture
33. Corinthian
Architecture