Fast and Curious Ancient Greece

The Greek word for a city-state is

• epic
• acropolis
• polis
• fables

a high hill where the fort was built is called the

• polis
• acropolis
• Pericles
• Aesop

a type of government in which people rule themselves.

• oligarchy
• tyrant
• monarchy
• democracy

rich landowners, or

• democracy
• aristocrats
• helot
• citizens

A government in which only a few people have power is called an

• classical
• democracy
• helot
• oligarchy

people who had the right to participate in government.

• Pericles
• citizens
• tyrant
• polis

which meant a leader who held power through the use of force.

• tyrant
• citizens
• polis
• Homer

Athens reached its height under a brilliant elected leader named

• Pericles
• Homer
• Aesop
• Plato

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

• polis
• citizens
• hellenistic
• mythology

the Iliad and the Odyssey, by a poet named

• Pericles
• Homer
• Aesop
• Plato