ch. 4- Ancient Greece Vocabulary

Body of land with water on 3 sides

• Colony

• Agora

• Peninsula

• Tyrant

An open area that served as a market and a meeting place.

• Agora

• Helot

• City-State

• Colony

Settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties with its homeland.

• Polis

• Colony

• Democracy

• Tyrant

Greek City-State made up of a city and the surrounding countryside and run like an independent country.

• Colony

• Tyrant

• Peninsula

• Polis

A person who takes power by force and rules with total authority.

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Helot

Government in which a small group of people holds power.

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Helot

System of government in which citizens choose a smaller group to make laws and governmental decisions on their behafl

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Helot

A person who was conquered and enslaved by the ancient Spartans

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Helot