Chapter 7 Vocabulary Practice

A piece of land nearly surrounded by water

• peninsula

• fjord

• island

• valley

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

• agora

• bards

• polis

• tyrant

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

• colonies

• oligarchy

• communities

• helots

a Greek city-state

• colony

• community

• channel

• polis

a gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece

• community

• colony

• agora

• city place

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

• agora

• phalanx

• satrap

• ephor

an absolute ruler unrestrained by law

• satrop

• oligarchy

• tyrant

• bard

a government in which a small group has control

• direct democracy

• oligarchy

• democracy

• representative democracy

a government by the people

• oligarchy

• direct democracy

• democracy

• representative democracy

enslaved people in ancient Sparta

• satrap

• helot

• polis

• tyrant