Chapter 8: Ancient Greece

Greek word for city-state

• polis

• acropolis

• tyrant

• oligarchy

an age marked by great achievements

• classical

• aristocrats

• democracy

• fables

a fortress atop a tall hill in the center of the city-states

• acropolis

• tyrant

• polis

• fables

type of government in which people rule themselves

• democracy

• oligarchy

• aristocracy

• tyranny

government in which only a few people have power

• oligarchy

• tyranny

• aristocracy

• democracy

rich landowners

• aristocrats

• tyrants

• citizens

• fables

people with the right to participate in government

• citizens

• aristocrats

• fables

• tyrants

leader who rules by the use of force

• tyrant

• aristocrat

• citizen

• oligarch

Athenian leader who ruled at the height of Athenian democracy

• Pericles

• Homer

• Sappho

• Aesop

body of stories about gods or heroes that tries to explain how the world works

• mythology

• fables

• classical

• polis