Vocabulary Matching Flashcard

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a city with its own traditions and its own government

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City-State

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Match the vocabulary term to the correct definition: a member of a rich and powerful family

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Aristocrats

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a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining

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Stoic

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a ruler who takes power with the support of the middle and working classes

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Tyrant

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a form of government in which citizens govern themselves

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Democracy

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believing that your own culture or ethnic group is superior to all other groups, a belief of the Greeks

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Ethnocentric

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a serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character

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Tragedy

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a high, rocky hill near which early people build cities

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Acropolis

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a piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides

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Peninsula

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a long narrative poem

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Epic