Ancient Greeks Terms
A city state with its own government.
What is Polis
The main 2 Greek city-state rivals
Athens & Sparta
Ancient Greeks lived near this great sea; in Latin it is called Mare Nostrum
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What type of Government was established by ancient Greece?
Democracy
Open area that served as a meeting place and market
What is an agora?
Contained fortifications and temples of the local god
What is the acropolis?
Militaristic, uneducated, strong
What is Sparta
they could not farm so they grew only a few crops like
Grapes and olives
who was the strongest ancient greek god
Zeus
Spartan slaves
What are helots?
a political power held by a small group of people
Oligarchy
A main city and the surrounding territories
What is a city-state?
What was an highest Part of the city/Poleis__.
Acropolis
He was the son of Zeus , half God half human.
Hercules
A Greek infantry soldier
What is a hoplite?
is a political system where citizens makes decision
Direct Democracy
membership in a state who gives people rights
Citizenship
goats, pigs, and sheep
What are animals the Greeks could raise?
What does philosophy mean in Greek?
Love of Wisdom.
Greek soldiers in a tight box
What is the phalanx?
democracy where people elect the representative to make decisions
Representative Democracy
This is the language of the Minoans that we can not translate
What is Linear A?
Greece was between ____Sea and ___Sea.
Mediterranean and Aegean
Name two of the main philosophers.
Plato and Aristotle
Considered the "earliest Greeks"
Who are the Mycenaeans?