Ancient Greece Vocabulary

Body of land with water on three sides

• peninsula
• city-states
  
• Agora
  
• phalanx

A city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

• City-State
• tyrant 
• philosophers 
• drama 

An open area that was used as a marketplace, or an area where people could gather and debate issues, or vote.

• philosophers
• representative democracy
• Agora
• Aristotle

A group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows.

• helots
• ritual
• fable
• phalanx

Someone who would seize power and would rule with total authority.

• philosophers
• tyrant
• Pythagoras
• Alexander The Great

voting and participation in government are limited based on citizenship

• Hellenistic
• Aristotle
• Socrates
• Limited Citizenship

Through his conquest the Greek culture was spread throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean World

• Alexander The Great
• Phillip of Macedonia
• Archimedes
• Plato

A few wealthy people that hold power over the larger group of citizens.

• Representative Democracy
• Direct Democracy
• oligarchy
• Tryant 

All citizens meet to debate and vote on government matters.

• Representative Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Tyrant
• Direct Democracy 

Citizens elect a smaller group of people the group will represent the people, and make laws. This is what we have in the United States today.

• Representative Democracy
• Direct Democracy
• Oligarchy
• Tyrant