Vocabulary
A person who is legally recognized as a member or subject of a country or state.
What is citizen?
In ancient Greece, a form of government in which the male citizens held ruling power and made decisions; in modern times, a form of government in which citizens choose the leaders by vote.
What is a democracy?
The ancient Greek word for city state?
What is polis?
Could be a citizen of Athens.
Who are any male adults who are not enslaved and who had two Athenian parents.
To cut off from the seacoast; surrounded by land.
What is landlocked?
A government led by a king or a queen.
What is a monarchy?
The Greek's chief god.
Who is Zeus?
Voted to determine government policy in ancient Athens.
Who is the Assembly?
A place in the mountains that is lower than the surrounding peaks and that people use as a path through the mountains.
What is a pass?
A type of government in which one person legally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship.
What is tyranny?
The main city-state rival of Athens.
Who is Sparta?
Wrote the Greek poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The study of ways of thinking and making well-reasoned arguments.
What is logic?
A government controlled by a small group of people made up of aristocratic and wealthy non-aristocratic families.
What is an oligarchy?
The most important thing to Spartans.
What is military ability?
Two kings, an aristocratic council, and an assembly.
Who were the leaders of Sparta?
The skill of using words effectively in speaking or writing.
What is rhetoric?
The upper or noble class whose members' status is usually inherited.
What is aristocracy?
Created this to defend themselves against any future Persian invasions.
What is why the Delian League was established by the Greek City States.
Made decisions about cases involving private laws.
Who are juries?