World History Ch 4,7 & 8 vocab

What term means excellence?

• Assemble

• Tyrant

• Polis

• Arete

to gather; to meet together

• Arete

• Assemble

• Polis

• Democracy

the early Greek city-state, consisting of a city or town and its surrounding countryside 

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

• Patrician

• Polis

a ruler who seized power by force from the aristocrats, gained support from the newly rich and the poor, and maintained power by using hired soldiers and fighting tactics

• Tyrant

• Polis

• Republic

• Dictator

"the rule of many"; government by the people, either directly or through their elected representatives 

 

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Republic

• theocracy

"the rule of the few"; a form of government in which a select group of people exercises control 

• Republic

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• bureaucracy

a form of government in which the leader is not a king in certain citizens have the right to vote 

• Democracy

• Republic

• Oligarchy

• Dictator

a social class of wealthy powerful land owners, they formed the ruling class in the Roman Republic

• Patrician

• Plebeian

• Polis

• Icons

a social class made-up of minor land holders, craftspeople merchants, and small farmers 

• Dictator

• Plebeian

• Patrician

• Republic

an absolute ruler

• Dictator

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Republic