Vocab

Question 0

Colony

Answer 0

settlement in new territory with close ties to homeland

Question 1

Peninsula

Answer 1

Land surrounded on 3 sides by water

Question 2

Polis

Answer 2

Early Greek city state (city and surrounding land)

Question 3

Agora

Answer 3

Marketplace and assembly for Athens civic life

Question 4

Dark age

Answer 4

Trade slowed, poverty took hold, writing and craftwork declined, and Greeks settled on Aegean Sea and coast of Asia Minor

Question 5

Illiad

Answer 5

Epic poem recounting Trojan war

Question 6

Democracy

Answer 6

Governed by people

Question 7

Oligarchy

Answer 7

Governed by a small powerful group

Question 8

City state

Answer 8

Independent state made up of a city and its surrounding land and villages

Question 9

Tyrant

Answer 9

Person who take power by force and is a total ruler

Question 10

Helot

Answer 10

Conquered or enslaved person of Sparta

Question 11

Philosopher

Answer 11

Thinker of Wisdom and life

Question 12

Direct democracy

Answer 12

People decide in mass for what should happen

Question 13

Representative democracy

Answer 13

People chose a smaller group to represent ideas of themselves

Question 14

Zoroastrianism

Answer 14

Persian religion based on the freedom to choose right and wrong; goodness wins in end