Greece vocab 1-20

a peninsula that forms the southern portion of Greece; site of the Peloponnesian War

• Peloponnesus

• Crete

• Athens

• Sparta

An early civilization in Greece

• Minoan Civilization

• Peloponnesus

• Mycenaean Civilization

• Sparta

A powerful city-state in ancient Greece

• Delian League

• Crete

• Sparta

• Athens

A powerful city-state in ancient Greece, where the world's first democracy developed; capital of present-day Greece

• Crete

• Delian League

• Sparta

• Athens

A ruler who has absolute authority

• Assembly

• Tyrant

• Democracy

• Acropolis

A busy marketplace in the center of Athens made up of open-air buildings

• agora

• mall

• potsherds

• democracy

the earliest known civilization in Greece

• Athens

• Crete

• Mycenaean civilization

• Minoan civilization

An island in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece

• Acropolis

• Athens

• Crete

• Sparta

the war between the Mycenaeans and the city of Troy

• Delian War

• Trojan War

• Peloponnesian War

• Minoan War

a form of government in which a few people rule

• socialism

• tyrant

• democracy

• oligarchy