Ancient Greece Vocabulary

What is the Greek word for city-state?

• City-State

• Polis

• Acropolis

• Athens

Which Greek Polis (City-State) is known for having the first democracy and education?

• Athens

• Knossos

• Delphi

• Sparta

Who is a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline?

• Hellenism

• Professor

• Philosopher

• Teacher

What is a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

• Country

• City-State

• Acropolis

• Greece

What is a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives

• Representative Democracy

• Monarcy

• Theocracy

• Direct Democracy

What is the Greek city-state known for a focus on the military?

• Knossos

• Sparta

• Delphi

• Athens

In ancient Rome, the supreme governing body, originally made up only of aristocrats.

• Assembly

• Council of 500

• Senate

• House of Reps.

Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great is __________

• Hieroglyphics

• Hellenism

• Alexandrism

• Diffusion