Greece Vocabulary

person forced to work as a lowly slave/farmer in Sparta

• ephor

• tenant farmer

• tyrant

• helot

form of Greek culture that developed after Alexander's conquests

• Socratic method

• democracy

• Hellenistic

• phalanx

government run by a small group of rulers

• oligarchy

• democracy

• tyranny

• monarchy

person who pays rent to grow crops on another person's land

• helot

• tenant farmer

• tyrant

• metic

government in which citizens hold political power

• aristocracy

• democracy

• oligarchy

• monarchy

high or upper part of a Greek city where

public buildings and city's defenses were located

• polis

• military state

• phalanx

• acropolis

people who had the right to participate in government

• citizens

• metics

• alliance

• aristocrats

a Greek military formation of heavily armed

foot soldiers who move together as a unit

• representative democracy

• calvary

• phalanx

• military

  state

government run by a strong, harsh ruler;

unjust use of power

• direct/representative democracy

• Socratic method

• aristrocracy/aristocrat

• tyranny/tyrant

Foreigner, non-citizen, or resident alien in a city-state,

often a merchant or artisan

• helot

• metic

• Hellenistic

• tenant farmer