vocabulary

Question 1

Peloponnese

Answer 1

Island of the pelops

Question 2

Polis

Answer 2

Greek city state
Plural: poleis

Question 3

Aegan

Answer 3

Aigis - meaning storm
Aegus - a mythical king of Athens who committed suicide by leaping into the sea near Athens

Question 4

Aristokratia

Answer 4

Power by the best men
Rule by an elite

“Kratia” = governance, rule, power
“Aristoi” = the best people/men

Question 5

Aristoi

Answer 5

The “nobility”
A group that claimed descent from the heroes of Greek mythology

Question 6

Boulē

Answer 6

Council

Question 7

Genos

Answer 7

A clan - collection of aristocratic families

Question 8

Dēmos

Answer 8

The people, including the citizen poor

Question 9

Ekklēsia

Answer 9

The assembly and calling out of all citizens

Question 10

Iones

Answer 10

Ionian Greeks

Question 11

Aioleis

Answer 11

Aeolian Greeks

Question 12

Doreioi

Answer 12

Dorian Greeks

Question 13

Phalanx

Answer 13

Battle rows
Battle ranks

Question 14

Hoplitēs

Answer 14

Man with a hoplon

Question 15

Ōthismos

Answer 15

The push

Question 16

Sōphorosunē

Answer 16

Self restraint or self control

Question 17

Thētes

Answer 17

Lowest social class, citizen poor
Laborers or peasants

Question 18

Turannos

Answer 18

Tyrant, illegitimate ruler of polis

Question 19

Spartē

Answer 19

Sparta
Sown land
Broom shrub

Question 20

Sunoikismos

Answer 20

Amalgamation, combining the oikoi

Question 21

Oikos

Answer 21

Home or living unit

Question 22

Peroikoi

Answer 22

Dwellers around
Second class citizen, non spartan villagers that Spartans conquered
Singular: Peroikos

Question 23

Helotai

Answer 23

Helots, slaves; agrarian slaves
Inhabitants of seaside village Helos in southern Laconia that Spartans invaded AND all of Messenia

Question 24

Klēroi

Answer 24

Plots of land
Singular: klēros

Question 25

Oligarchia

Answer 25

Hoplite franchise "government by a few"

Question 26

Spartiatai

Answer 26

Spartiates, Spartans

Question 27

Homoioi

Answer 27

We who all are equal - what Spartan men named themselves

Question 28

Agogē

Answer 28

Spartan education and indoctrination system for boys

Question 29

Syssition

Answer 29

Dining club Dining mess - Spartan man's family of other Spartan men - Supplied basic units of Spartan men's social and economic lives

Question 30

Hypomeiones

Answer 30

Inferiors; failed Spartiates - screened out of agogē - failed to keep up in syssition

Question 31

Lakedaimonioi

Answer 31

Lacedaemonians; Spartan citizens

Question 32

Neodamodeis

Answer 32

New members of the people, free helots

Question 33

Gerousia

Answer 33

Spartan council of elders

Question 34

Krypteia

Answer 34

Helot murdering commando assignment by for near adult teenaged boys

Question 35

Eunomia

Answer 35

Good government from a right wing anti democracy standpoint

Question 36

Persai

Answer 36

Persian

Question 37

Mēdoi

Answer 37

Medes

Question 38

Kuros

Answer 38

King Cyrus the Great of ancient Persia

Question 39

Attika

Answer 39

Derived from aktē - meaning peninsula

Question 40

Archōns

Answer 40

Executive official or magistrate