Ancient Greece

a body of land with water on three sides

• peninsula

• colonies

• agora

• peloponnesus

lies southeast of the Greek mainland

• polis

• knossos

• crete

• peloponnesus

revealed the riches of an ancient society

• agamemnon

• mycenae

• knossos

• polis

discovered one of their walled palaces

• agamemnon

• mycenae

• peloponnesus

• colonies

used trickery to win that war

• crete

• agora

• peloponnesus

• agamemnon

many settled in the

• mycenae

• peloponnesus

• colonies

• peninsula

cities began sending people outside Greece to start

• colonies

• knossos

• agora

• agamemnon

was like a tiny independent country

• polis

• agamemnon

• colonies

• mycenae

below the acropolis was an open area called an

• crete

• peloponnesus

• agora

• peninsula

a _____________ is someone who takes power by force and rules with total authority

• peisistratus

• helots

• tyrant

• democracy