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Greece Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a legal member of a country or city-state called? | Citizen |
| What is art and practice of government called? | Politics |
| What is a hereditary class of rulers, Greek for "rule by the best people" called? | Aristocracy |
| What is ownership and control of other people as property known as | Slavery |
| What unjust use of power,or in ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler called? | Tryranny |
| What form of government in which citizens hold political power called? | Democracy |
| What were memberships in a state or community which gives a person civil and political rights and obligations called? | Citizenship |
| What government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government called? | Direct democracy |
| What democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation's laws? | Representative democracy |
| What is a Messenian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by sparta called? | Helot |
| What is a society organized for the purpose of waging war called? | Military state |
| What is military housing called? | Barracks |
| What was the first Greek victory over the persian army that ended in the first Persian war? | Battle of Marathon |
| What was the second Persian war in the Persian navy known as? | Battle of Salamis |
| What is the military alliance led by Athens called? | Delian League |
| What is the military alliance led by Sparta called? | Peloponnesian League |
| What is a city found by Alexander the Great in Egypt called? | Alexandria |
| What is the form of Greek culture that emerged after Alexander's conquest called? | Hellenistic |
| What is the worship of many gods considered? | Polytheism |
| What is a collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and heros known as? | Mythology |
| In ancient Greece, an athletic competition held every four years in honor of Zeus was the what? | Olympic games |
| What is a method of using observations,experiments, and careful reasoning to gain new knowledge called? | Socratic method |
| What is a local guess considered? | Hypothesis |
| What is oath taken by medical students swearing to practice medicine in an ethical way called? | Hippocratic oath |
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