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top 6 Ancient Greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Polis | A Polis, or city-state. |
| Citizen | The Citizens would meet to make laws and discuss issue affecting the entire community. |
| Acropolis | (uh KRAH puh lis) |
| Politics | the art and practice of government. |
| Aristocracy | an aristocracy, a hereitary class of rulers. |
| Eventual | Victory |
| Exclude | all excluded from the process |
| Direct democracy | Government in which citizens take part directly in the day to day affairs of goverment |
| Representative demorcracy | demorcracy 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 |
| sligarchy | |
| phalanx | Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit |
| tyranny | unjust use of power, or in ancient Greece a goverment run by a strong ruler |
| democracy | form of government in which citizens hold political power |
| citizenship |