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ancient greece
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| polis | By the time homer's epics were composed, each Greek community had begun to organize itself into a Polis |
| citizen | Citizen would meet to make laws and discuss issues affecting the entire community |
| acropolis | On a high hill stood the acropolis were located in this area |
| politics | the word polis gave rise to the term politics |
| aristocracy | in early times the polis was governed by an aristocracy, a hereditary class of rulers. |
| eventual | The Iliad tells of events during the war, but stop before the Greeks' eventual victory |
| exclude | women, slaves, and foreigners were all exclude from the process |
| direct democracy | A political system in which citizens |
| representative democracy | In a representative democracy, citizens elect others to represent them in government |
| maintain | as foot soldiers, fighters in a phalanx did not need to be rich enough to buy and maintain |
| lecturer | Commonly a lecturer taught students subjects such as mathematics and public speaking |
| oligarchy | a type of government the Greeks called an oligarchy |
| phalanx | The phalanx was a formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit |
| tyranny | then they were able to set up a tyranny, or government run by a strong ruler |
| democracy | The Greeks called this form of the government democracy |
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