Greece Vocabulary

Greek word for a city-state.

A high hill that was the center of a Greek city that was surrounded by walls. 

Type of government in which people rule themselves through voting.

Rich landowners 

Type of government where only a few people have power.

A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works. 

Leader who holds power through force.

Series of wars between Greece and Persia in the 400s BC.

War between Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta that led to a weakened Greece.

Greek culture that combined elements of Egyptian, Syrian, Greek and Persian ideas.