Ancient Greece: Vocabulary

a large sea located south of Greece

• Mediterranean Sea

• Aegean Sea

• Peloponnese

• peninsula

an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece

• Aegean Sea

• Mediterranean Sea

• peninsula

• Peloponnese

a long, narrow stretch of land that is surrounded by water on three sides

• peninsula

• colony

• acropolis

• island

a territory, often very large, under the political and economic control of another country

• colony

• city-state

• acropolis

• assembly

an independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory

• colony

• city-state

• acropolis

• assembly

a peninsula forming the southern part of the mainland of Greece

• Peloponnese

• Athens

• Sparta

• Macedon

a person who has certain rights and duties in a city-state or nation

• citizen

• city-state

• helot

• serf

the hill above a Greek city, on which temples were built

• acropolis

• city-state

• colony

• peninsula

a group of citizens, in an ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws

• assembly

• acropolis

• Congress

• helots

a slave

• helot

• citizen

• oligarch

• peninsula