SS Vocabulary - GREECE

• A greek city state

• phalanx

• polis

• metic

• academy

• legal member of a city state

• citizen

• tyranny

• sarissa

• oligarchy

• “high city” in greek - upper part of an ancient greek city where buildings were built

• helot

• ephor

• phalanx

• acropolis

• art and practice of government

• polis

• citizenship

• politics

• democracy

• “Rule by the best people” in greek - class of the rulers 

• barracks

• aristocracy

• oligarchy

• acropolis

• Government in which a small group of people rule 

• oligarchy

• demopcracy

• citizen

• phalanx

Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who move together as a unit

• democracy

• oligarchy

• phalanx

• ephor

• Wrong use of power - in Greece, a government ruled by a strong leader

• tyranny

• helot

• ephor

• metic

• Government where citizens hold political power

• oligarchy

• phalanx

• democracy

• military state

• Membership in a state or community which gives a person civil and political obligations 

• polis

• citizenship

• politics

• aristocracy