Chapter 10 Vocabulary Part I

the art and practice of government

• politics

• hellenistic

• mythology

• barracks

legal member of a country or city-state

• citizen

• phalanx

• academy

• polis

Greek city-state

• polis

• citizen

• aristocracy

• metic

hereditary class of rulers

• aristocracy

• democracy

• tyranny

• barracks

the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the city's defenses were located

• acropolis

• citizen

• metic

• slavery

person who pays rent, either in money or crops, to grow crops on another person's land

• tenant farmer

• metic

• slavery

• polis

foreigner in a Greek city-state, often a merchant or artisan

• metic

• citizen

• polis

• tenant farmer

ownership and control of other people as property

• slavery

• metic

• citizen

• polis