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greece vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| settlement | a small community or village |
| shelter | a place that provides protection from weather, such as a house |
| colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
| merchant | a person who makes money by selling goods |
| monarch | a single ruler, such as a king, queen, or emperor,who holds all the power in a country or empire |
| aristocrat | a member of the most powerful class in ancient greek society |
| oligarch | one of several people who rule a country or empire together, sharing the power |
| tyrant | a person who seizes power illegally |
| citizen | a member of a democracy, who has certain rights and responsibilites |
| assembly | a group of citizens in an ancient greek democracy with the power to pass laws |
| peloponnesus | the peninsula forming the southern part of the mainland of greece |
| agora | a marketplace in ancient greece |
| priestess | a female priest |
| cavalry | soldiers who ride on horses |
| hellespont | the long, narrow body of water between europe and asia in present-day turkey |
| acropolis | the hill above a greek city on which a temples were built |
| parthenon | the temple honoring the goddess athena, built on the acropolis above athens |
| myth | a traditional story that helps to explain a culture's beliefs |
| archetecture | the art of designing buildings |
| sculpture | the art of creating three-demensional figures from materials as wood, stone, and clay |
| drama | the art of writing, acting in, and producing plays |
| oracle | a name given to a priest or priestess that can talk the gods |
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