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Top6 Ancient Greece
Greek
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Polis | Greek city-state |
| Citizen | Legal member of a country or city-state |
| Acropolis | High city |
| Politics | people in groups make a decision at many different levels |
| Aristocracy | Ruled by the best people |
| Evendenual | Final |
| Exclude | To shut out or keep from participating |
| Oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. |
| Phalanx | a body of troops or police officers standing or moving in close formation. |
| Tyranny | cruel and oppressive government or rule. |
| Democracy | A place ruled by the people |
| Citizenship | membership in a state or community which gives a person civil and political rights and obligations |
| Direct democracy | government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government |
| Representative democracy | democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation’s laws |
| Maintain | to keep and support |
| Lecturer | person who gives an informative talk to students |
| Ephor | one of five senior Spartan |
| Helot | a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens |
| Military state | one in which the government is directly run by the military |
| Barracks | a building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison |
| Authority | the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine |
| Tenant farmer | a person who farms land rented from another, the rent usually taking the form of part of the crops grown or livestock reared |
| Metic | n alien resident of an ancient Greek city who had some civil privileges |
| Slavery | a condition in which one human being was owned by another |
| Obtain | to gain or attain usually by planned action or effort |
| Symbolize | the use of words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events |
| Battle of Marathon | fought between a Persian army and a mostly Athenian Greek army in 490 BCE during the first Greco-Persian War |
| Battle of Salamis | Greco-Persian Wars |
| Delian League | a military alliance against any enemies that might threaten Ionian Greeks |
| Peloponnesian League | an alliance of ancient Greek city-states, dominated by Sparta and centred on the Peloponnese |
| Pursue | to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, or defeat |
| Ally | one that is associated with another as a helper |
| Polytheism | the belief in or worship of more than one god |
| Mythology | a collection of myths or stories about a specific person, culture, religion, or any group with shared beliefs |
| Olympic Games | an athletic festival that originated in ancient Greece and were revived in the late 19th century. |
| Lyric poetry | a type of poetry that expresses the personal emotions or feelings of the speaker or the writer |
| Chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| Innovation | new ways of doing things |
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