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T6=Ancient Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| polis | Greek city-state |
| citizen | Legal member of a country or city-state |
| acropolis | ''High city'' in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the city's defenses were located. |
| politics | Art and practice of government |
| aristocracy | Hereditary class of rulers, Greek for ''rule by the best people'' |
| eventual | Adj., final |
| exclude | V., to shut out, keep from participating |
| direct democracy | government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government. |
| representative dmocracy | democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation's laws. |
| maintain | v., to keep and support. |
| citizenship | membership in a state or community which gives a person civil and political right and obligations. |
| lecturer | n., person who gives an informative talk to students. |
| tyranny | unjust use of power, or in ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler. |
| phalanx | Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit. |
| oligarchy | government in which a small group of people rule. |
| democracy | form of government in which citizens hold political power. |