Ancient Greece Vocabulary

A hill above a Greek city on which temples were built.

• Agora

• Acropolis

• Colony

• Parthenon

A marketplace in ancient Greece.

• Agora

• Acropolis

• Colony

• Tyranny

The ruler of a vast empire that extended from Macedonia to India in the 300’s BCE.

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Alexander

A great Greek philosopher and tutor of Alexander the Great and author of works on logic, science, and politics.

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Alexander

A group of citizens in an ancient Greek democracy with the power to pass laws.

• Acropolis

• Agora

• Citizens

• Assembly

Soldiers who ride on horses.

• Cavalry

• Oligarchy

• Colony

• Monarchy

A person who has certain rights and duties in a city state or nation.

• Assembly

• Citizen

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

A settlement under the control of a usually distant country.

• Agora

• Assembly

• Colony

• Tyranny

 In Athens, a group of 500 citizens chose to form a council responsible for running the day to day business of the government.

• Council of Elders

• Council of 500

• Monarchy

• Colony

A small group of Spartans who made all the important government decisions.

• Council of Elders

• Council of 500

• Assembly

• Acropolis