Warring City-States

A city-state in Greece was called a

• metropolis
• province
• satrap
• polis

A fortified hilltop where citizens gathered to discuss city government was called

• a metropolis
• a phalanx
• a stadium
• an acropolis

A system of government ruled by a single person, called a king, was known as

• an empire
• a monarchy
• a dynasty
• a polis

A government ruled by a small group of noble, land-owning families was 

• an aristocracy
• a monarchy
• a polis
• a democracy

In Greece, a person who seized control of the government by appealing to the common people for support was

• a tyrant
• a king
• a dictator
• a revolutionary

Rule by the people became known as

• oligarchy
• democracy
• tyranny
• monarchy

The Athenian ruler who outlawed debt slavery was

• Solon
• Draco
• Darius
• Cleisthenes.

A city-state that built a military state rather than a democracy was

• Athens
• Peloponnesus.
• Corinth
• Sparta

A fighting form in which foot soldiers hold a spear in one hand and a shield in the other and stand side-by-side was a

• helot
• tyrant
• troop
• phalanx

The type of government that existed in Sparta could be described as

• a monarchy
• a direct democracy
• an oligarchy
• an aristocracy