Ancient Greece Vocab

Greek city-state

• polis

• acropolis

• aristocrat

HIGH city in Ancient Greece.

• acropolis

• polis

• aristocracy

farmers renting land for crops

• metic

• tenant farmers

• tyrants

government "by the people"

• democracy

• tyranny

• aristocracy

the "best people"- very wealthy

• aristocracy

• tyranny

• democracy

government run by a small group

• oligarchy

• tyranny

• monarchy

leadership passed down from ruler to son; kings & queens

• monarchy

• tyranny

• democracy

type of democracy where officials are elected to represent & make laws for citizens

• representative democracy

• direct democracy

type of democracy in which citizens voice opinions/"votes" themselves- government of Athens.

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

non-citizen in Greece; foreigner

• metic

• phalanx

• polis