McDougal Littell World History: Patterns of Interaction

Alexandrias museum

contained a small observatory in which astronomers could study the plants and stars.

Monarchy

: when a single person, called a king, ruled in a government.

Pericles

used the money from the leagues treasury to make the Athenian navy the strongest in the Mediterranean.

Draci

developed a legal code based on the idea that all Athenians, rich and poor, were equal under the law.

Alexander

had learned science, geography, and literature.

Xerxes

assembled an enormous invasion force to crush Athens.

Epicurus

founded the school of thought called Epicureanism.

Sea raider

attacked and burned many Mycenaean cities.

Wealthy citizens

bore the cost of producing the plays.

Sparta

had the most powerful army in Greece.

historians

Some believe that he (Homer) composed his epic celebrating heroic deeds, between 750- 700 B.C.

Astronomers

accepted this view for the next 14 centuries.

Strong rulers

controlled the areas around other Mycenaean cities, such as Tiryns and Athens.

Aristophanes

wrote the first great comedies for the stage.

military

The allowed Pericles to treat other members of the Delian Leagues as part of the empire.

Acropolis

: thar agora, or marketplace that citizens gathered at to discuss city government.

Athenian leader Cleistenes

The introduced further reforms.

Prosperity

depended on gaining access to the surrounding waterways.

Hellenistic world

What was in decline? Answer with a single words or term.

Euclid

was a highly regarded mathematician who taught in Alexandria.

women

What were able to learn how to read and write? Answer with a single words or term.

Stoics

proposed that people should live virtuous lives in harmony with the will of god or the natural laws that God established to run the universe.

Trojan War

The forms the backdrop for one of Homers great epic poems, the Iliad.

Aristocracy

: when a government ruled by a small group of noble serving in a kings military cavalry.

Plato

Sometime in the 370s B.C. wrote his most famous work, The Republic.