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Greece
The greece vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| settlement | a small community or village |
| shelter | a place that provides protection |
| 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 sosiety |
| oligarch | one of several people who rule a country or empire together sharing the power |
| tyrant | a person who seizes power illegally |
| Isthmus | a narrow strip of land bordered on bolth sides by water connecting two larger bodies of land |
| Peninsula | An area of land almost copleatly surrounded by water except for a isthmus connecting it to the mainland |
| Direct democrocy | Every citizen can vote |
| representative democrocy | people vote for a representative |
| Oracle | a name given to a priest or pristets that can talk to gods |