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Greece
The greece vocab
Term | Definition |
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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 |