Ancient Greece Vocab

Question 1

Greek word for city-state

Answer 1

polis

Question 2

a fortress atop a tall hill in the center of the city-states

Answer 2

acropolis

Question 3

type of government in which people rule themselves

Answer 3

democracy

Question 4

rich landowners

Answer 4

aristocrats

Question 5

government in which only a few people have power

Answer 5

oligarchy

Question 6

society ruled by rich landowners

Answer 6

aristocracy

Question 7

people with the right to participate in government

Answer 7

citizens

Question 8

a leader who rules by the use of force

Answer 8

tyrant

Question 9

Athenian leader who ruled at the height of Athenian
democracy

Answer 9

Pericles

Question 10

an agreement to work together

Answer 10

alliance

Question 11

a war between the two great Greek
city-states of Athens and Sparta in the 400s BC

Answer 11

Peloponnesian War

Question 12

a body of stories about gods or heroes that tries to explain
how the world works

Answer 12

mythology

Question 13

author of two great epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey

Answer 13

Homer

Question 14

most famous lyrical poet of ancient Greece

Answer 14

Sappho

Question 15

author of the world’s most famous set of fables

Answer 15

Aesop

Question 16

short stories that offer lessons on living

Answer 16

fables

Question 17

the first of the great Greek thinkers and teachers

Answer 17

Socrates

Question 18

teacher and thinker, student of Socrates, and founder of the
Academy

Answer 18

Plato

Question 19

philosopher who taught that people should live lives of
moderation based on reason

Answer 19

Aristotle

Question 20

clear and ordered thinking

Answer 20

reason

Question 21

great and influential mathematician

Answer 21

Euclid

Question 22

great Greek doctor who taught how to treat disease
by understanding what caused illness

Answer 22

Hippocrates