Ancient Greece All Vocab

A piece of land nearly surrounded by water is 

• a peninsula 

•  island 

• city-state 

• country

A Greek city-state is called 

• a colony 

• phalanx

•  agora

• polis 

A group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows is called a 

• phalanx 

•  polis 

• agora 

• peninsula

A gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece 

• polis

• colony

• agora 

• city-state 

Someone who writes or performs epic poems or stories about heroes and their deeds

• tyrant

• bard

• colony

• leader

A group of people living in a new land who have ties to their homeland they left

• polis

• colony

• bards

• leaders

A high ranking government official in Sparta who was elected by the council of elders.

• Sparta

• Athens

• Ephors

A defeated person forced to become a slave in ancient Sparta

• Sparta

• helot

• citizen

A Greek city state that was ruled by an oligarchy, focused on the military and used slaves for

• Sparta

• oligarchy

• Athens

A government in which all citizens share in running the government,

• tyrant

• oligarchy

• democracy