Lesson 26 Vocab And Study Guide

Question 1

a member of the most powerful class in ancient Greek society

Answer 1

Aristocrat

Question 2

a group of citizens, in an ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws

Answer 2

Assembly

Question 3

A person who has certain rights and duties in a city state or nation

Answer 3

Citizen

Question 4

a government in which power is held by the people, who exercise power directly or through elected representatives

Answer 4

Democracy

Question 5

to act in a way that is unfriendly and angry toward a particular person or object

Answer 5

Hostile

Question 6

to knowingly not pay attention to something or someone

Answer 6

Ignored

Question 7

to put a decision or plan into effect

Answer 7

Implemented

Question 8

firmly and repeatedly stating a point of view

Answer 8

Insisted

Question 9

a government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person

Answer 9

Monarchy

Question 10

A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of a few people.

Answer 10

Oligarchy

Question 11

To have to do something based on a ruler or command

Answer 11

Required

Question 12

To act or decide in a way that is the opposite or what has been established

Answer 12

Reversed

Question 13

government in which absolute ruling power is held by a person who is not a lawful king

Answer 13

Tyranny

Question 14

Under the rule of the oligarchs, what happened to most of the poor people.

Answer 14

The poor became poorer

Question 15

What was the same throughout the Greek city states?

Answer 15

They spoke the same language

Question 16

Ancient Greece communities are called

Answer 16

City states

Question 17

The lawmaking group in Athens was called the blank and all blank could vote in it

Answer 17

Assembly- free male citizens

Question 18

In times of war the king relied on the blank for money to raise and supply an army

Answer 18

Aristocrats

Question 19

In a monarchy the king has what type of power?

Answer 19

Absolute Power

Question 20

What idea that is important today came from Ancient Greek Athens?

Answer 20

People should rule themselves like a democracy

Question 21

How was Ancient Greek democracy different from democracy in the United States today?

Answer 21

Citizens voted directly on all issues.

Question 22

How was democracy in Athens different from other ancient forms of government?

Answer 22

All citizens shared ruling power.

Question 23

Why where some tyrants well like?

Answer 23

Made laws that improved people’s lives

Question 24

What time did many city states come under the rule of tyrants.

Answer 24

Mid 600s

Question 25

Who would have said these words ( I was in the army when people began to complain about memebers of government getting richer while everyone else was getting poorer. So I stepped forward and with the people’s help I became a leader.)

Answer 25

A tyrant

Question 26

Oligarchs where thrown out of power by a partnership between

Answer 26

Army leaders and poor people

Question 27

What kind of laws did oligarchs pass?

Answer 27

Laws that benefitted and favored the rich

Question 28

What might an oligarch do on a regular day?

Answer 28

Host chariot races, party and hunt

Question 29

Which word in English comes from a Greek word meaning few?

Answer 29

Oligarch

Question 30

What happened to the kings advisors after the king lost power.

Answer 30

They where either dismissed or replaced

Question 31

Who belonged to the councils of aristocrats

Answer 31

Rich men who had land from their families

Question 32

How did most kings in Ancient Greece come to power?

Answer 32

Inherited it from family members.

Question 33

How was it possible that different parts of Greece had different forms of government.

Answer 33

Steep mountains kept people from different ports.

Question 34

Which form of government in a Greek city state usually came first?

Answer 34

Monarchy