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Chapter 8 Vocab
Ancient Greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| polis | Greek city-state |
| citizen | legal member of a country or city-sate |
| acropolis | "high city" in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings & the city's defenses were located. |
| politics | art and practice of government |
| aristocracy | hereditary class of rulers, Greek for "rule by the best people" |
| tenant farmer | person who pays rent, either in money or crops, to grow crops on another person's land. |
| metic | a foreigner in a Greek city-state, often a merchant or artisan |
| slavery | ownership and control of other people as property |
| oligarchy | government in which a small group of people rule |
| phalanx | Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit. |
| tyranny | unjust use of power, or in Ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler |
| democracy | form of government in which citizens hold political power |
| citizenship | membership in a state or community which gives a person civil and political rights and obligations |
| direct democracy | government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government. |
| representative democracy | democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation's laws. |
| ephor | man responsible for the day-to-day operation of the government in Sparta |
| helot | Messian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by Sparta |
| military state | Society organized for the purpose of waging war |
| barracks | military housing |
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