Greece (Ch 7 Lesson 1)

Greek communities began to send people outside the Aegean area to establish ________ (which are settlements in a new territory that have close ties to their homeland)

• colonies

• peninsulas

• democracies

Trade expanded as merchants traded ___________for goods rather than bartered for goods. This system increased a colony's wealth.

• weapons

• food

• money

As in Mesopotamia, the Greek city-states were made up of a town or city and the surrounding area. Each Greek city-state, or _____________, was like an independent country.

• agora

• polis

• currency

At the center of each polis was a fort built on a hilltop. The hilltop that a fort stood on was called an _______

• tyrant

• acropolis

• political

Outside the acropolis was an open area called an ______, which was a space used as a marketplace and to debate issues, choose officials, pass laws, and carry out business.

• agora

• city-state

• dynasty

Greek _____________ members of a political community with rights and responsibilities.

• polis

• tyrants

• citizens

In Greece, male citizens had the right to vote, hold public office, own property, and ____

• build their house on the acropolis

• serve in the oligarchy

• defend themselves in court

Citizens had the responsibility to serve in government and to ________

• serve as the philosopher of the temple

• fight for their polis as citizen soldiers

• spend two years in the navy

In most Greek city-states, only free, land-owning men born in the polis could be citizens.

• True

• False

By 700 B.C., citizens called _______ made up the city-state armies. They fought on foot and carried a round shield, a short sword, and a spear.

• senators

• elders

• hoplites