1. Vocabulary Words Your Name
Ancient Greece
Vocabulary Words
Your Name

2. A large hill which the Greeks built their city-states around
Acropolis
A large hill which the Greeks built their city-states around
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3. Agora
Definition
A place where Greeks meet and conduct their business.

4. Assembly
Definition
A lawmaking place where people voted on issues that helped country.

5. Citizen
Definition
A person who has certain rights and responsibilities to his or her country.

6. Colony
Definition
A group of people who lived apart from Greece but kept economic ties with it.

7. Democracy A form of government where people vote to make decisions
Definition
A form of government where people vote to make decisions

8. Jury They hear evidence and make decisions in a court of law.
Definition
They hear evidence and make decisions in a court of law.

9. Monarchy
Definition
Government headed by one ruler.

10. Polis
Definition
A Greek City-State.

11. Philosophy
Definition
A study of wisdom and the right way to live.

12. Peninsula
Definition
An area of land nearly surrounded by water.

13. Peloponnesian War
Definition
The war between Athens and Sparta.

14. Oligarchy
Definition
The kind of government that is run by a small group of people.

15. Harbor
Definition
A sheltered place along a coastline