Lesson 26 Vocab/ 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 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 hands of a few people

Answer 10

Oligarchy

Question 11

To have to do something based on a rule or command

Answer 11

Required

Question 12

To act or decide in a way that is the opposite of 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

Became poorer

Question 15

What was the same throughout the Greek city-states

Answer 15

Language

Question 16

Ancient Greece communities are called

Answer 16

City-states

Question 17

The lawmaking group in Athens was called the ____ and all _____could vote in it

Answer 17

Assembly/ free men citizens

Question 18

In times of war the king relied on the ___ 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 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

Why were some tyrants well like?

Answer 22

Made laws that improved people’s lives

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Mid 600’s BCE

Question 24

In a tyranny, what allowed the leader to rule

Answer 24

Military force

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Tyrants

Question 26

Oligarchs were thrown out of power by a partnership between

Answer 26

Army leader and poor people

Question 27

What kinds of laws did the oligarchs pass

Answer 27

They passed laws to ply help the rich

Question 28

What might an oligarch do an ordinary day?

Answer 28

Hunting| chariot races|parties

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Oligarchs

Question 30

What happens o the kind’s advisers after the king lost power?

Answer 30

New ruling group called -oligarchs

Question 31

Who belonged to the councils of aristocrats?

Answer 31

Rich people who had land from their families

Question 32

How did most kings in Ancient Greece come to power

Answer 32

Inherited it from a relative

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Steep mountains kept people from different area a part

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Monarchy

Question 35

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

Answer 35

All citizens shared ruling power