Chapter 10 Section 1 Flashcards
Homer
A blind poet who told the story of the Trojan War
Polis
A city-state
Citizens
Members of a city-state who had legal rights
Politics
Art and practice of gonvernment
Tenant farmers
People who pay rent, either in money or crops, to grow crops on other people’s land
Metic
People who were not a citizen from that city-state
Peninsula
An area surrounded by water on three sides
Acropolis
On the high hill were public buildings and marble temples
Peloponnesian peninsula
The largest of the greek peninsula’s
Crete
An island in the south mainland of greece
Slavery
The ownership and control of other people as property
Migration
Moving another area
Spartan women
Had more freedom than any other city state. They were able to sell there property.
Landowners
They were rich people
Small farmers
They owned smaller plots of land
