Ancient Greece Vocab

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent economic, political, and cultural area.

• Polis

• City-state

• Democracy

• Hoplite

an ancient Greek city-state

• Decline

• Temple

• Polis

• Helot

Citizen-soldier in ancient Greece

• Democracy

• Hoplite

• Oligarchy

• Direct Democracy

In this type of government, all citizens meet to discuss and vote on laws.

• Decline

• Direct democracy

• Tyrant

• Democracy

an absolute ruler unrestrained by law

• Helot

• Oligarchy

• Representative Democracy

• Tyrant

a gradual and continuous loss of strength, numbers, quality, or value.

• Decline

• Representative Democracy

• Democracy

• Loss

a form of democracy in which citizens elect officials to govern on their behalf

• Decline

• Direct Democracy

• Representative Democracy

• Democracy

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state

• Voting System

• Representative Democracy

• Democracy

• Direct Democracy

a few wealthy people hold power over the larger group of citizens

• Tyrant

• Oligarchy

• Decline

• Power

A slave in ancient Sparta

• Ancient Slave

• Ancient Sparta Slave

• Hoplite

• Helot