Topic 6 Vocabulary set 1

Greek city-state

• Athens
• territory

• polis

• countries

legal member of a country or city-state

• Alien
• Citizen
• Resident
• Tourist

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

• Hippodrome
• Parthenon
• Colosseum
• Acropolis

art and practice of government

• studies

• government studies
• politics

• public administration

hereditary class of rulers, Greek for "rule by the best people"

• monarchy
• oligarchy
• democracy
• aristocracy

government in which a small group of people rule

• oligarchy
• democracy
• anarchy
• monarchy

Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit

• squad
• platoon
• phalanx
• brigade

unjust use of power, or in ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler

• Monarchy
• Anarchy
• Tyranny
• Democracy

form of government in which citizens hold political power

• democracy
• anarchy
• dictatorship
• monarchy

membership in a state or community which gives a person civil and political rights and obligations

• residency
• citizenship
• immigration
• nationality