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Ancient Greece 6.1&2
Vocabulary Practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 city's defenses are located |
| Politics | Art and practice of government |
| Aristocracy | Hereditary class of rulers, Greek for "ruled by the best people" |
| Eventual | Final |
| Exclude | To shut out, keep from participating |
| Oligarchy | A government in which a small gorup 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 ran by a strong ruler. |
| Citizenship | A memebrship in a state or community which grants a person civil and political rights and obligations. |
| democracy | a form of government in which citizens hold political power. |
| 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 the nation's laws. |
| Maintain | To keep and support |
| Lecturer | Person who give information to students |