Vocabulary Ancient Greece 3.1 and 3.2

What is a Bard?

• Another name for the King of Minos.

• A land mass near a peninsula.

• A type of community in Ancient Greece.

• A story teller who writes poems and stories.

Who was Cleisthenes?

• A Greek President.

• He created the foundations of democracy in Athens

• A great military leader.

• The king of Athens.

Why was Solon important to the Greeks.

• He was famous poet in Greece.

• He was a member for the Council of Elders

• He was head of a Athenian slave revolt.

• He was a merchant that created change in how Athens was governed.

This city-state was under military control.

• Athens

• Sparta

• Ephors

• Minos

A group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland is a ______________.

• Colony

• Citizen

• Acropolis

• Plananx

Affect is . . .

• a city on a hill.

• the hellenes idea of good goverment.

• an infection from ancient times.

• to influence or cause change.

In Sparta, the Council of Elders elected these people to collect taxes and enforce laws.

• Councilmen

• Citizens

• Ephors

• Kings

A gathering place is_______________

• an agora.

• a acropolis.

• an helot.

• a phalanx.

Peninsulas are defined as _________________________.

• a piece of land.

• a piece of land nearly surrounded by water.

• a piece of land surrounded by water.

• a piece of land that is surrounded by land. (land locked)

A government run and ruled by the people is...

• Council of Elders

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Democracy