Ancient Greece Vocabulary

the first Greeks who established colonies and built fortresses throughout Greece

• Minoans

• Athens

• Mycenaeans

• Hippocrates

a group of expert shipbuilders that settled on the island of Crete

• Mycenaeans

• Minoans

• Pericles

• Phalanx

city-state

• Polis

• Acropolis

• Alliance

• Minoans

Greek city-state where democracy was first created

• Sparta

• Athens

• Acropolis

• Socrates

Greek city-state that became a military society

• Phalanx

• Athens

• Sparta

• Tyranny

a high hill that housed the fortress of the city-state

• Plato

• Oligarchy

• Polis

• Acropolis

a type of government where only a small group of the wealthiest people have the power

• Direct Democracy

• Tyranny

• Oligarchy

• Aristocracy

someone who has the right to participate in government

• Aristotle

• Citizen

• Alliance

• Polis

a type of government that uses force to rule

• Oligarchy

• Aristocracy

• Tyranny

• Democracy

a type of government where the power is shared with a small group of people

• Tyranny

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Representative Democracy