World History: 6. Ancient Greece, Lessons 4–8

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  1. tenant farmer
    a person who works land owned by someone else
    A tenant farmer was someone who paid rent, either in money or crops, to grow crops on another person's land.
  2. metic
    a foreigner who paid to reside in an ancient Greek city
    Merchants and artisans were often resident aliens. One of these resident aliens, called a metic, might be a Greek from another city-state or someone who was not Greek.
  3. slave
    a person who is forcibly held in servitude
    Slavery is the ownership and control of other people as property.
  4. obtain
    come into possession of
    Some city-states obtained more land and resources by conquering their neighbors.
  5. symbolize
    express indirectly by an image, form, or model
    Greek colonists brought a flame from home to light fires in the new colony. This flame symbolized their ties to their old city-state.
  6. pursue
    follow in an effort to capture
    Xerxes burned Athens and sent his ships to pursue the Greek navy.
  7. ally
    a friendly nation
    Because Athens and its allies met together on the island of Delos, their alliance was called the Delian League.
  8. league
    an association of states or individuals for common action
    Because Athens and its allies met together on the island of Delos, their alliance was called the Delian League.
  9. polytheism
    belief in multiple gods
    The ancient Greeks practiced polytheism, the worship of many gods, or deities.
  10. mythology
    the body of stories associated with a culture or institution
    Mythology is the collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and heroes.
  11. cease
    have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
    During the games, all conflicts between city-states ceased.
  12. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
    Performers often sang these poems while playing a stringed instrument known as a lyre. As a result, these poetic songs became known as lyric poetry.
  13. chorus
    actors who comment on the action in a classical Greek play
    The chorus commented on the action and advised the characters.
  14. submission
    the act of surrendering power to another
    There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
  15. reason
    the capacity for rational thought
    Reason is the power to think clearly.
  16. Socratic method
    a method of teaching by question and answer
    Today, this question-and-answer method of teaching is called the Socratic method and is used to instruct students in a variety of subjects.
  17. hypothesis
    a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations
    Like modern scientists, the Greeks first made observations of nature. They then formed a hypothesis, or logical guess, to explain their observations.
  18. concept
    an abstract or general idea inferred from specific instances
    The Greeks first discovered many basic concepts in mathematics.
  19. period
    an amount of time
    The Hellenistic period lasted from Alexander's time until about 30 BCE.
  20. acquire
    come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
    The Library was founded by the Ptolemies, the Hellenistic rulers of Egypt. Their goal was to acquire a copy of every book in the world.
  21. classical
    characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures
    The union of Greek and Roman culture created what we call Greco-Roman or classical civilization.
Created on Tue Jun 29 09:24:27 EDT 2021 (updated Fri Jul 02 13:08:41 EDT 2021)

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