Ancient Greece Vocabulary

The ________ were a group of people who lived on the island of Crete and traded with other groups along the Mediterranean Sea.

• Mycenaeans
• Sparta
• Hippocrates
• Minoans

A ________ was a Greek city-state that formed in a time period known as Greece’s classical era.

• polis
• Acropolis
• aristocracy
• phalanx

Eventually, Sparta defeated Athens in the ___________________.

• representative democracy
• phalanx
• Peloponnesian War
• oligarchy

One of Ancient Greece’s biggest advocates of democracy was ___________.

• Homer
• Hippocrates
• Pericles
• Alexander the Great

The first Greeks, the ____________, built fortresses and established colonies.

• Mycenaeans
• Minoans
• Athens
• Hellenistic

Citizens elect government officials to represent them in a ________________.

• tyranny
• aristocracy
• direct democracy
• representative democracy

_______ was a Greek thinker who supported using reason to solve the world’s problems.

• Alexander the Great
• Aristotle
• Homer
• Sparta

Democracy was first founded in _________, a city-state that is now the capital of Greece.

• Athens
• Sparta
• Polis
• Acropolis

In __________________, citizens participate directly in government and vote on all issues.

• tyranny
• aristocracy
• direct democracy
• representative democracy

Although Alexander the Great spread Greek culture to the places he conquered, the culture that developed was _____________, or Greek-like, but not completely Greek.

• Hellenistic
• Homer
• Sparta
• Phalanx