Ancient Greece Vocabulary

a settlement under the control of a usually distant country

• colony
• aristocrat
• tyranny
• peninsula

to get an opinion and information from someone

• consulting
• assembly
• reversed
• relied

to take part in something, such as a game or activity

• participate
• Aegean Sea
• required
• citizen

a body of land that is surrounded on three sides by water

• peninsula
• colony
• relied
• reversed

to depend on something or someone

• relied
• consulting
• Aegean Sea
• tyranny

a member of the most powerful class in ancient Greek society

• aristocrat

• oligarchy

• participate

• democracy

a group of citizens, in an ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws

• assembly

• democracy

• oligarchy

• citizen

a person who has certain rights and duties in a city-state or nation

• citizen

• ignored

• colony

• participate

a government in which power is held by the people, who exercise power directly or through elected representatives

• democracy

• oligarchy

• monarchy

• implemented

to act in a way that is unfriendly and angry toward a particular person or object

• hostile
• insisted
• implemented
• Aegean Sea