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Term | Definition |
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polis | city-state |
citizen | members of a city-state who had legal rights |
acropolis | high city, part of the city on a hill |
politics | the art and practice of government |
aristocracy | a heredity class of rulers |
metic | resident alien (non-citizens) |
slavery | the ownership and control of other people as property |
oligarchy | political system in which power is held by a small group of people |
phalanx | a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit |
tyranny | a government run by a strong ruler |
democracy | rule by the people |
citizenship | membership in a community |
direct democracy | a political system in which citizens participate directly in decision making |
representative democracy | a political system in which citizens elect others to represent them in government |
mythology | the collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and heroes |
Socratic method | form of teaching in which the teacher asks students question after question to force them to think more clearly |
hypothesis | logical guess |