Ancient Greece Vocabulary

Conquered people who became slaves for Sparta

• Assembly

• Aristocrats

• Helots

• Barracks

A person through whom a god or spirit is believed to speak about the future.

• Tyrant

• Teacher

• Oracle

• Socrates

A city-state of Ancient Greece that was the first to have a democracy

• Sparta

• Corinth

• Athens

• Olympia

A group of citizens in a Greek Democracy with the power to pass laws

• Agora

• Council of Elders

• Assembly

• Tyrants

A body of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides

• Island

• Peninsula

• Plain

• City-state

An arm of the Mediterranean Sea, East of Greece

• Black Sea

• Atlantic Ocean

• Aegean Sea

• Peloponnesus

A great philosopher in Ancient Greece who taught by asking his students thought provoking questions

• Leonidas

• Xerxes

• Alexander the Great

• Socrates

A peninsula forming the Southern part of mainland Greece were Sparta was located.

• Persia

• Peloponnesus

• Aegean

• Olympia

The temple built on the Acropolis above Athens, honoring the goddess Athena

• Parthenon

• Acropolis

• Oracle

• Sparta

A marketplace in Ancient Greece

• Barracks

• Economy

• Agora

• Temple