Ancient Greece Terms

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.

• Hellenes

• Athens

• State

• Phalanx

government by the people

• Islam

• democracy

• oligarchy

• dictatorship

A cause and effect relationship in which one variable controls the changes in another variable.

• Dominos

• Society

• Effect

• Causation

asking questions about a particular source, including: Who created it? When? Why? From what perspective or point of view? What did they know?

• Being annoying

• Historian

• Sourcing

• Causation

A community of people who share a common culture

• Community

• Society

• Sourcing

• Agora

the study of the earth's physical and cultural features

• Geography

• Sourcing

• Maps

• History

A government ruled by a few rich and powerful people

• Oligarchy

• Monopoly

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

an account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event.

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event

• Primary Source

• Secondary Source

Examine and judge carefully.

• Evaluate

• Cultivate

• Annihilate

• Corroborate