Ancient Greece Vocab

What was a Greek citizen soldier called?

• hoplite
• helot
• satrapies
• tyrant

What is a colony?

• settlement in a new territory
• marketplace
• body of land surrounded by water
• Persian empire divided into province

What is an isthmus?

• narrow strip of land in water & connects larger land 
• indentation of shoreline
• narrow body of water joins larger bodies water
• body of land surrounded by water on 3 sides

 Slaves conquered by the Spartans

• helot
• hoplite
• tyrant
• polis

What was the name of an open area used for a market or a meeting place?

• city-state
• acropolis
• agora
• polis

Where is the Acropolis?

• big fortress
• high hill
• city
• state

Mainland Greece is a __________, or a body of land with water surrounding three sides.

• city-state
• peninsula
• polis
• agora

What is democracy

• ruled by the majority
• ruled by one
• ruled by a few
• ruled by no one

A wealthy aristocrat that overthrew the king is called a

• Oligarch
• Monarch
• Democrat
• Tyrant

Ruled by a king, without interest of the people in mind

• Monarch
• Oligarch
• Democracy
• Tyranny