Vocabulary
polis
What is a city-state?
Europe and Asia
What 2 continents did Greece lie on the edge of?
women
This group of people had different rights depending on what city-state they lived in. What group of people is this?
Conquest
What was a way to obtain more land called? Spartans were good at this.
land
What brought wealth to the aristocrats in city-states?
citizen
Who are members of a city-state who had legal rights?
mountains
What geographical feature divided mainland Greece?
slaves
What group of people did most of the work on large estates or farms?
migration
What is another name for colonization or moving into a new area called?
Made trade easier and merchants and artisans grew wealthier
What were 2 things that the adoption of coins help increase Greek wealth?
acropolis
What is a word meaning "high city"?
sheep and goats
What 2 types of livestock were the mountains good for?
Aristocrats
What group of people controlled city-states?
Coastline
Where was the ideal place for a colony located?
Men
Who had the most power in the Greek family?
aristocracy
What is "rule by the best people"?
Greek fishing and trading
What 2 things did the Mediterranean Sea help the Greeks with that became important?
Merchants and artisans
What 2 groups of people were in the middle group between the rich and the poor?
coins
What Greeks learned about when trading with Lydia?
Aristocracies, monarchies
What kinds of governments ruled Greek city-states?
tenant farmer
Who are people paying rent to grow crops on another person's land?
olive oil and wine
What 2 products grew well in the Mediterranean climate of ancient Greece?
Metic
What was the name given for someone who was not Greek or also know as a "resident alien"?
trade and culture
What 2 things benefited from Greek colonization?
Mountain ranges divided people
How did the physical geography of Greece encourage the development of the city-state?