6th Grade Ch 6 Mega Quiz

hereditary class of rulers, Greek for “rule by the best people”

• acropolis
• aristocracy
• citizen
• polis
• politics

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

• direct democracy
• lecturer
• oligarchy
• phalanx
• representative democracy

Messenian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by Sparta

• barracks
• ephor
• helot
• innovation
• military state

gained

• metic
• obtain
• slavery
• symbolize
• tenant farmer

Greek victory over the Persian navy during the Second Persian War

• ally
• Battle of Marathon
• Battle of Salamis
• Delian League
• Peloponnesian League

in ancient Greek drama, a group of people who commented on the action of a play and advised the characters

• chorus
• lyric poetry
• mythology
• Olympic games
• polytheism

logical guess

• Academy
• Hippocratic oath
• hypothesis
• reason
• Socratic method

span of time

• acquire
• classical civilization
• Hellenistic
• period
• sarissa

the civilization of the ancient Greeks and Romans

• acquire
• classical civilization
• Hellenistic
• period
• sarissa

18-foot-long Macedonian pike

• acquire
• classical civilization
• Hellenistic
• period
• sarissa