Ancient Greece - Vocabulary

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

• polis

• Acropolis

• aristocracy

• phalanx

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

Eventually, Sparta defeated Athens in the ___________________.

• representative democracy

• phalanx

• Peloponnesian War

• oligarchy

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

• Athens

• Sparta

• Polis

• Acropolis

______________ is a type of government that uses force to rule.

• Democracy

• Tyranny

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

________ was a Greek philosopher who taught other thinkers at his Academy.

• Homer

• Socrates

• Hippocrates

• Plato

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

• Homer

• Hippocrates

• Pericles

• Alexander the Great

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

• tyranny

• aristocracy

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

Power is shared by a small group of people in an _____________.

• Democracy

• Tyranny

• Aristocracy

• Oligarchy

__________ was a famous Greek philosopher known for his method of questioning.

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Hippocrates