Ancient Greece Vocabulary

A piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides is

• a peninsula

• island

• city-state

• polis

A Greek city-state is called 

• a colony 
• phalanx
•  agora
• polis 

A group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows is called a

• phalanx

• polis

• agora

• peninsula

A gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece

• polis

• colony

• agora

• city-state

Government where only a few wealthy people hold power

• democracy

• polis

• oligarchy

• tyrant

A slave in Sparta

• helot

• philosopher

• tyrant

• oracle

A rich person who owns land, is noble (like a Duke)

• tyrant

• aristocrat

• democracy

• philosopher

ruler who takes power by force

• tyrant

• president

• king

• emperor

the study of truth and wisdom

• philosophy

• mathematics

• algebra

• aristocracy

Member of a city-state who had legal rights, was able to meet to make laws

• Citizen

• Tyrant

• Polis

• helot