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Ancient Greece

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polis   Greek city-state  
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citizen   legal member of a country or city-sate  
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acropolis   "high city" in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings & the city's defenses were located.  
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politics   art and practice of government  
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aristocracy   hereditary class of rulers, Greek for "rule by the best people"  
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tenant farmer   person who pays rent, either in money or crops, to grow crops on another person's land.  
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metic   a foreigner in a Greek city-state, often a merchant or artisan  
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slavery   ownership and control of other people as property  
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oligarchy   government in which a small group of people rule  
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phalanx   Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit.  
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tyranny   unjust use of power, or in Ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler  
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democracy   form of government in which citizens hold political power  
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citizenship   membership in a state or community which gives a person civil and political rights and obligations  
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direct democracy   government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government.  
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representative democracy   democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation's laws.  
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ephor   man responsible for the day-to-day operation of the government in Sparta  
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helot   Messian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by Sparta  
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military state   Society organized for the purpose of waging war  
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barracks   military housing  
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