City-States
Government
Important Peeps
Vocab 1
Vocab 2
100

This is what a city-state is known as in ancient Greece. 

What is a polis? 

100

This is the membership in a community.

What is citizenship? 

100

This man was the lawmaker known for their harsh, or severe, punishments. 

Who is Draco? 

100

This is moving to a new area. 

What is migration? 

100

This was a key characteristic of democracy in ancient Athens. 

What is rule by citizens? 

200

This is the marketplace. 

What is the agora? 

200

This is the art and practice of government. 

What is politics? 

200

This man, notable for his importance in the foundations of Athenian democracy, reduced the power of the rich, and increased the power of the assembly. 

Who is Cleisthenes? 

200

This is a group of ships. 

What is a fleet? 

200

The lowest class of ancient Greek society. 

What were slaves? 

300

This is known as the "high city", where citizens of a polis would go in case of an emergency. 

What is an acropolis? 

300

This is the Greek term for council and assembly. 

What is boule? 

300

This man, notable for his importance in the foundations of Athenian democracy, helped poor people take part in government by paying citizens for jury service. 

Who is Pericles? 

300

This is the Greek word for tenant farmers, they were people who paid rent to grow crops on a person's land. 

What is thetes? 

300

The name for the Messenians that Sparta conquered. 

What were helots? 

400

This Greek city-state was known for its focus on military training and discipline. 

What is Sparta? 

400

This is the type of government when one strong person runs the government, typically through force. 

What is tyranny? 

400

This man, notable for his importance in the foundations of Athenian democracy, ended the sale of poor people and gave non-aristocratic men the right to vote. 

Who is Solon? 

400

This is a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit. 

What is a phalanx? 

400

A foot soldier in ancient Greece didn't need to own this animal. 

What is a horse? 

500

This is how aristocrats living in ancient Greece acquired most of their wealth. 

Aristocrats would acquire wealth by owning large plots of land that slaves would work? 

500

The multiple differences in lifestyle and government choices between Athens and Sparta. 

What are ways of education, Athens had a true democracy, Sparta was an oligarchy, Sparta had two kings, Sparta did not trade like Athens did, Sparta had helots doing most of the work to maintain their lives while they waged war. 

500

There are a few (2-3) things that aristocrats would spend their free time doing in ancient Greece. 

They would spend leisure time discussing poetry, academics, and politics.

500

This is a group of people who hear evidence and decide a court case. 

What is a jury? 

500

The name of the peninsula that Sparta conquered, and lived on? 

What was Peloponnesia?