Ch 7 Vocabulary (ancient Greece)

a piece of land nearly surrounded by water (p.174)

• continent

• peninsula

• dominated

a storyteller; someone who performs epic poems about heroes (p.178)

• bard

• Hellenes

• phoenicia

a settlement in a new territory with close ties to its homeland

• colony

• city-state

• peninsula

a Greek city-state (p. 180)

• peninsula

• agora

• polis

At the center of each polis was a fort built on a hilltop. That hilltop was called an ________. Temples were also built here (page 180)

• politics

• agora

• acropolis

an open area outside the acroplis used as a marketplace in ancient Greece

• democracy

• agora

• politics

the citizens in Greece that made up the city-state armies. They were heavily armed and carried a round shield (page 182)

• acropolis

• phalanx

• hoplites

a group of Greek hoplites (soldiers) arranged close together in rows (page 182)

• phalanx

• unified

• chariot

a ruler in ancient Greece, who took power and ruled with authority (page 183)

• tyrant

• monarch

• democracy

a government where a small group has control

• democracy

• tyrant

• oligarchy