History ancient greek vocab

Question 1

Polis

Answer 1

A city state

Question 2

Citizens

Answer 2

Member of the city state

Question 3

Acropolis

Answer 3

High city

Question 4

Politics

Answer 4

The art and practice of government

Question 5

Aristocracy

Answer 5

A hereditary class of rulers

Question 6

Oligarchy

Answer 6

A type of government

Question 7

Phalanx

Answer 7

A formation heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit

Question 8

Tyranny

Answer 8

Government run by a strong ruler

Question 9

Democracy

Answer 9

Rule by the people

Question 10

Direct democracy

Answer 10

A form of government in which politics and laws are decided by a majority of all those eligible rather than by a body of elected representatives

Question 11

Representative democracy

Answer 11

Citizens elect each other’s to represent them in government

Question 12

Ephor

Answer 12

Responsible for the day to day operation of the gov

Question 13

Helot

Answer 13

A slave from Messenia that now belongs to Sparta

Question 14

Military state

Answer 14

A society organized for the purpose of waging war

Question 15

Barracks

Answer 15

Military housing

Question 16

Tenant farmer

Answer 16

Someone who paid rent to grow crops

Question 17

Slavery

Answer 17

Ownership and control of other people as property