Ancient Greece

Greek city-state

• Polis

• Politics

• Direct Democracy

• Maintain

legal member of a country or city-state

• tyranny

• eventual

• ephor

• citizen

“high city” in Greek; the upper part of an Ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the city’s defenses were located

• oligarchy

• acropolis

• lecturer

• phalanx

art and practice of government

• painting

• sculpting

• politics

• polis

hereditary class of rulers, Greek for “rule by the best people”

• exclude

• oligarchy

• aristocracy

• barracks

final

• tyranny

• maintain

• authority

• eventual

to shut out, keep from participating

• maintain

• democracy

• innovation

• exclude

government in which a small group of people rule

• democracy

• oligrachy

• aristocracy

• monarchy

Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit

• representative democracy

• direct democracy

• phalanx

• tyranny

unjust use of power, or in Ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler

• tyranny

• treason

• teamwork

• tiresome