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Greece vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Peninsula | a peice of land nearly surrounded by water |
| Mycenaean/ Minoans | early groups living in Greece |
| Conlony | a group of people living in a new territory with close ties to their nomeland |
| Polis | a Greek city |
| Acropolis | area of hight ground at the center of Polis |
| Agora | a gathering place or marketplace in ancient Greece |
| Phalax | a group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows |
| Hoplites | citizen soldiers |
| Direct Democracy | all citizens meet to debate and vote on government matters |
| Representative Democracy | citizens elect a smaller group of people this group represents them makes laws and governs on their benalf |
| Strait | a norrow passage of water connecting two seas or two large areas of water |