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Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| polis | city-state |
| citizen | members of a city-state who had legal rights |
| acropolis | high city, part of the city on a hill |
| politics | the art and practice of government |
| aristocracy | a heredity class of rulers |
| metic | resident alien (non-citizens) |
| oligarchy | political system in which power is held by a small group of people |
| phalanx | a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit |
| tyranny | a government run by a strong ruler |
| democracy | rule by the people |
| citizenship | membership in a community |
| direct democracy | a political system in which citizens participate directly in decision making |
| representative democracy | a political system in which citizens elect others to represent them in government |
| mythology | the collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and heroes |
| Socratic method | form of teaching in which the teacher asks students question after question to force them to think more clearly |
| hypothesis | logical guess |