SS- Chapter 7 Lessons 1-2 Vocabulary

a piece of land nearly surrounded by water

• ephor

• peninsula

• tyrant

• colony

someone who writes or performs epic poems or stories about heroes and their deeds

• bard

• ephor

• tyrant

• helot

a group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland; the new territory itself

• agora

• colony

• phalanx

• democracy

a Greek city-state

• agora

• ephor

• colony

• polis

a gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece

• oligarchy

• democracy

• phalanx

• agora

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

• phalanx

• tyrant

• peninsula

• agora

an absolute ruler unrestrained by law

• oligarchy

• democracy

• tyrant

• ephor

a government in which a small group has control

• oligarchy

• democracy

• ephor

• polis

a government by the people

• ephor

• democracy

• agora

• bard

enslaved people in ancient Sparta

• bards

• helots

• ephors

• tyrnants