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Topic 6
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" |
| oligarchy | government in which a small group of people rule |
| 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 government run by a strong ruler |
| democracy | form of government in which citizens hold political power |
| 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 that nation's laws |
| polytheism | worship of many gods or deities |
| mythology | collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and heroes |
| Olympic games | in ancient Greece, an athletic competition held every four years in honor of Zeus |
| Academy | school of philosophy founded by Plato |
| Hellenistic | the form of Greek culture that emerged after Alexander's conquests |
| classical civilization | the civilization of the ancient Greeks and Romans |
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