Chapter 10 section 1 Flashcards
1
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Greek city-state
A
Polis
2
Q
legal member of a country or city-state
A
Citizen
3
Q
“high city” in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the city’s defenses were located
A
Acropolis
4
Q
art and practice of government
A
Politics
5
Q
hereditary class of rulers, Greek for “rule by the best people”
A
Aristocracy
6
Q
land area almost surrounded by water
A
Peninsula
7
Q
an area of land that is part of a continent
A
Mainland
8
Q
Greek poet who wrote the epics the lliad and odyssey
A
Homer
9
Q
a highly advanced civilization that had a writing system and running water
A
Minoans
10
Q
governed by a monarchy and was later destroyed by the Dorians
A
Mycenaeans
11
Q
Polis had three kinds of inhabitants
A
citizens, woman and free foreigners, slaves
12
Q
government headed by a king
A
Monarchy
