Ancient Greece Vocab Study Guide

What is the meaning of the Greek word 'Polis'?

• City-state

• Fortress

• Government

• Alliance

What is an Acropolis?

• A fortress atop a tall hill in the center of the city-states

• A type of government in which the people rule themselves

• Rich landowners

• A society ruled by rich landowners

What is democracy?

• A fortress atop a tall hill in the center of the city-states

• A type of government in which the people rule themselves

• Rich landowners

• A society ruled by rich landowners

Who are aristocrats?

• City-state

• Fortress

• Rich landowners

• Alliance

What is an oligarchy?

• City-state

• Fortress

• Rich landowners

• Government in which only a few people have power

What is an aristocracy?

• City-state

• Fortress

• Rich landowners

• Society ruled by rich landowners

What is a tyrant?

• City-state

• Leader who rules by the use of force

• Rich landowners

• Alliance

What is an alliance?

• City-state

• Fortress

• Government

• Agreement to work together

Which two city-states were involved in the Peloponnesian War?

• Athens and Sparta

• Thebes and Corinth

• Argos and Megara

• Delphi and Olympia

What is mythology?

• Body of stories about gods and heroes that tries to explain how the world works

• A type of government in which the people rule themselves

• Rich landowners

• A society ruled by rich landowners