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Ancient Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Peninsula | a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water. |
| Crete | a Greek island in the Mediterranean. |
| Mycenae | an ancient city in S Greece, in Argolis. |
| Agamemnon | a king of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War and was murdered by Clytemnestra, his wife, upon his return from Troy. |
| Peloponnesus | a peninsula forming the S part of Greece. |
| Colonies | a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. |
| Polis | an ancient Greek city-state. |
| Agora | the Agora, the chief marketplace of Athens, center of the city's civic life. |
| Tyrant | a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly. |
| Oligarchy | a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few. |
| Democracy | government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. |
| Sparta | an ancient city in S Greece: the capital of Laconia and the chief city of the Peloponnesus, at one time the dominant city of Greece: famous for strict discipline and training of soldiers. |
| Athens | Greek Athenai. a city in and the capital of Greece, in the SE part. |
| Helots | |
| Solon | |
| Peisistratus | |
| Cleisthenes |
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