Athens vs. Sparta: Vocabulary

What is a government where power is controlled by the head of one family?

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Tyranny

Which term describes a government controlled by a small group of wealthy aristocrats?

• Tyranny

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

What is a government where power is controlled by a single person who has taken over illegally?

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

• Monarchy

Which type of government is controlled by everyone, including common people?

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

Who is someone that paid rent to grow crops on another person’s land?

• Helot

• Metic

• Tenant Farmer

• Ephor

What term describes a Greek from another city-state or someone who was not Greek?

• Helot

• Metic

• Phalanx

• Boule

What is a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit?

• Boule

• Phalanx

• Ephor

• Barracks

What is a 500-person council called?

• Boule

• Ephor

• Phalanx

• Helot

Who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the government, being one of five people?

• Helot

• Ephor

• Boule

• Metic

What term describes a kind of slave in ancient Greece?

• Metic

• Helot

• Ephor

• Boule