1. Ancient Greece Vocabulary Terms
Sixth Grade Social Studies

2. Terms 1-5
Democracy:  system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives.  Monarchs: a form of government in which sovereignty is actually or nominally embodied in one or several individual(s) reigning until death or abdication. Colony: a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country. Scarcity: in short supply. Aristocrat: refers to people that a particular social order considered the highest social class of that society.

3. Terms 6-9
Mythology: a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition of a group of people. Hippocrates: a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. Battle of Thermopylae: fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. Socrates:  a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

4. Terms 10-14
Plato:  philosopher and mathematician in Classical Greece, and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Aristotle: a Greek philosopher and scientist. Peloponnesian War:  an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Pythagoras:  an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and has been credited as the founder of the movement called Pythagoreanism. Parthenon:  a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.