Ancient Greece Vocab Test

A group of expert shipbuilders that settled on the island of Crete

• Minoans

• Athens

• Sparta

• Thebes

The first Greeks to establish colonies and build fortresses throughout Greece

• Spartans

• Athenians

• Mycenaeans

• Trojans

A city-state

• Citizen

• Polis

• Tyranny

• Democracy

A high hill that housed the fortress of the city-state

• Panthenon

• Acropolis

• Library of Alexandria

• Polis

Greek city-state where democracy first created

• Sparta

• Alexandria

• Athens

• Thebes

Greek city-state that became a military society

• Thebes

• Athens

• Sparta

• Macedonia

A type of government where power is shared with a small group of people

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Polis

• Tyranny

A type of government where only a small group of the wealthiest people have the power

• Aristocracy

• Tyranny

• Democracy

• Thebes

A type of government that uses force to rule

• Tyranny

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Republic

A government that gives people the power to rule themselves

• Democracy

• Tyranny

• Oligarchy

• Aristocracy