Ancient Greece Vocab Test

Greek city-state

• polis

• acropolis

• politics

• helot

legal member of a country or city-state

• citizen

• ephor

• helot

• metic

“high city” in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the city’s defenses were located

• acropolis

• polis

• citizen

• oligarchy

art and practice of government

• politics

• phalanx

• slavery

• metic

hereditary class of rulers, Greek for “rule by the best people”

• aristocracy

• oligarchy

• democracy

• tyranny

government in which a small group of people rule

• oligarchy

• aristocracy

• democracy

• tyranny

Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who move together as a unit

• phalanx

• military state

• helot

• metic

unjust use of power, or in ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler

• tyranny

• democracy

• aristocracy

• oligarchy

form of government in which citizens hold political power

• democracy

• oligarchy

• aristocracy

• tyranny

government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• military state

• slavery