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SS Lesson 6.1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Eventual | Final |
| Citizens | would meet to make laws and discuss issues affecting the entire community. |
| Polis | or city-state. |
| Acropolis | a word meaning high city. |
| Politics | the art and practice of government. |
| Aristocracy | a hereditary class of rulers. |
| excluded | to shut out keep from participating |
| phalanx | was formation of heavily armed foot soldiers lined up to form a row of overlapping shields. |
| maintain | to keep support |
| tyranny | or government run by a strong ruler. |
| democracy | which means rule by the people. |
| Citizenship | is membership in a community. |
| lecturer | person who gives informative talk to students. |
| direct democracy | direct democracy worked in Athens because the population of the city-state was small and because of the commitment and hard work of its citizens |
| representative democracy | citizens elect others to represent them in government. |
| Phalanx | was a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit. |
| tyranny | or government run by a strong ruler. |
| oligarchy | in an oligarchy, political power is head by a small group of people. |