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Ancient Greece Vocabulary

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Greek word for city-state?

a)

City-State

b)

Polis

c)

Acropolis

d)

Athens

2.

Which Greek Polis (City-State) is known for having the first democracy and education?

a)

Athens

b)

Knossos

c)

Delphi

d)

Sparta

3.

Who is a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic discipline?

a)

Hellenism

b)

Professor

c)

Philosopher

d)

Teacher

4.

What is a city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

a)

Country

b)

City-State

c)

Acropolis

d)

Greece

5.

What is a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Monarcy

c)

Theocracy

d)

Direct Democracy

6.

What is the Greek city-state known for a focus on the military?

a)

Knossos

b)

Sparta

c)

Delphi

d)

Athens

7.

In ancient Rome, the supreme governing body, originally made up only of aristocrats.

a)

Assembly

b)

Council of 500

c)

Senate

d)

House of Reps.

8.

Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great is __________

a)

Hieroglyphics

b)

Hellenism

c)

Alexandrism

d)

Diffusion