Ancient Greece Vocabulary

Greek market place

• City-State

• Agora

• Hellenistic

• Deity

He conquered most of the ancient world from Asia Minor to Egypt

and India, which began the Hellenistic culture which was a blending of

Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian influences.

• Aristotle

• Hercules

• Plato

• Alexander the Great

Greek philosopher and scientist. Believed the best government was a

mixture of monarchy and democracy. Teacher to Alexander the Great

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Pericles

Greek city-state that practiced education and

philosophy

• Athens

• Crete

• Sparta

• Parthenon

A person with certain rights and responsibilities

in his or her country or community

• Citizen

• Deity

• Polis

• Hippocrates

A city that acts like a country

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Hellenistic

• City-State

Conflict between citizens of the same

country

• Dictatorship

• Tyranny

• Civil War

• Communism

A god or goddess

• Parthenon

• Deity

• Polis

• Citizen

Every citizen votes on all important

decisions

• Republic

• Indirect Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Direct Democracy

Greek-like

• Polis

• Parthenon

• Deity

• Hellenistic