Q.+Terms

Vocabulary

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**Definition:** Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. **Context:** Free elections are the hallmark of any democracy.
 * [[image:http://static.discoveryeducation.com/icon/byfriendly/small/audio.png width="20" height="20" link="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/vocab/spartans/democracy.aiff"]] || **democracy** ||

**Definition:** Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families. **Context:** The youth complain that the ruling oligarchy was composed of a few old men.
 * [[image:http://static.discoveryeducation.com/icon/byfriendly/small/audio.png width="20" height="20" link="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/vocab/spartans/oligarchy.aiff"]] || **oligarchy** ||

**Definition:** Rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained. **Context:** Soldiers serving in the Special Forces are taught how to live on a Spartan diet.
 * [[image:http://static.discoveryeducation.com/icon/byfriendly/small/audio.png width="20" height="20" link="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/vocab/spartans/spartan.aiff"]] || **Spartan** ||

**Definition:** Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed. **Context:** Historians describe Nazi Germany as a totalitarian state because the political authority had a firm control over businesses, peoples' private lives, and all government agencies.
 * [[image:http://static.discoveryeducation.com/icon/byfriendly/small/audio.png width="20" height="20" link="http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/vocab/spartans/totalitarian.aiff"]] || **totalitarian** ||

Greek History

 * Stone Age Greece
 * Early Bronze Age
 * Middle Bronze Age
 * Minoan Crete
 * Late Bronze Age
 * Greek Dark Ages
 * Archaic Greece
 * Classical Greece
 * Persian Wars
 * Marathon
 * Salamis
 * Peloponnesian War
 * Hellenistic Greece
 * Alexander
 * Victorious Army Problem

Daily Life in Greece

 * Greek Clothing
 * Greek Food
 * Olive Oil
 * Wine
 * Greek Schools
 * Greek Houses
 * Greek Slaves
 * Games and Toys
 * Greek Friendship
 * Barbarians
 * Greek Families
 * Greek Environment
 * Greek Weather

Greek Literature

 * Homer
 * Iliad
 * Odyssey
 * Aeschylus
 * Archilochus
 * Aristophanes
 * Damon and Pythias
 * Demosthenes
 * Euripides
 * Herodotus
 * Hesiod
 * Menander
 * Sappho
 * Sophocles
 * Thucydides
 * Xenophon

Greek Plays

 * Agamemnon
 * Antigone
 * Bacchae
 * Eumenides
 * Libation Bearers
 * Oedipus
 * Oedipus at Colonus
 * Phaedra

Greek Philosophy

 * Hubris
 * Agon
 * Nomos and Physis
 * Arete
 * Socrates
 * Plato
 * Aristotle
 * Skeptics
 * Epicureans
 * Stoics

Greek Sculpture

 * Stone Age
 * Bronze Age
 * Dark Ages
 * Archaic Sculpture
 * Classical Sculpture
 * Hellenistic Sculpture

Greek Art

 * Greek Painting
 * Greek Music

Maps of Greece

 * Aegean Sea
 * Alexander's campaigns
 * Hellenistic World

Greek Religion

 * Aphrodite
 * Apollo
 * Ares
 * Artemis
 * Athena
 * Demeter
 * Dionysos
 * Furies
 * Gaia
 * Hades
 * Hephaistos
 * Hera
 * Hermes
 * Hestia
 * Muses
 * Persephone
 * Poseidon
 * Prometheus
 * Zeus
 * Sacrifice
 * Delphi
 * Oracles
 * Mystery Cults
 * Eleusis
 * Underworld

Greek Architecture

 * Stone Age
 * Bronze Age
 * Mycenae
 * Archaic
 * Classical
 * Pediments
 * Metopes
 * Doric
 * Ionic
 * Corinthian
 * Parthenon
 * Peristyles
 * Hellenistic
 * Theaters
 * Mosaic Floors

Greek Pottery

 * Stone Age Pottery
 * Early Bronze Age
 * Minoan and Mycenaean
 * Sub-Mycenaean
 * Geometric
 * Black Figure
 * Exekias
 * Red Figure
 * Berlin Painter

Ancient Greece Projects

 * Oil Lamp
 * Vase-Painting
 * Olympics
 * Play-Reading
 * Shield
 * Discus
 * Greek coins
 * Gold bowl
 * Lyre
 * Clay Seals
 * Spinning
 * Greek Gods project
 * Persephone project
 * Debate project
 * Pythagorean Theorem
 * Teacher's Guide
 * Teacher's Links

Greek Science

 * Greek Numbers
 * Pythagoras
 * Greek Mathematics
 * Anaxagoras
 * Euclid
 * Archimedes
 * Eratosthenes
 * Thales
 * Greek Astronomy
 * The Earth
 * The Moon
 * The Sun
 * Greek Medicine

State and Economy

 * Athens
 * Athenian Trials
 * Corinth
 * Sparta
 * Greek Coins
 * Silver
 * Archaic Economy
 * Oligarchy
 * City-State
 * Hoplites
 * Tyranny
 * Cancellation of Debts
 * Classical Economy
 * Democracy
 * Hellenistic Economy
 * Greek Warfare
 * Greek Warships
 * Greek Boats and Ships
 * Greek Cargo Ships

Olympic Games

 * Opening ceremonies
 * The Competitions

Greek Mythology

 * Achilles
 * Actaeon
 * Ajax
 * Amazons
 * Antaeus
 * Arachne
 * Arion
 * Atalanta
 * Atreus
 * Augean Stables
 * Busiris
 * Cassandra
 * Daedalus and Icarus
 * Europa
 * Geryon
 * Helen of Troy
 * Hercules
 * Garden of the Hesperides
 * Nemean Lion
 * Hydra
 * Iphigeneia
 * Kleobis and Biton
 * Medusa
 * Menelaus
 * Minotaur
 * Niobe
 * Pandora
 * Judgment of Paris
 * Pelops
 * Penthesileia
 * Perseus and Medusa
 * Phaethon
 * Sphinx
 * Tantalus
 * Theseus and the Minotaur
 * Trojan Horse

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