Ancient Greece vocabulary

An area settled by people who come from elsewhere

• isthmus

• polis

• colony

• citizen

a chain of islands

• colony

• archipelago

• isthmus

• oligarchy

a narrow piece of land that connects 2 larger land masses

• isthmus

• democracy

• polis

• metic

a city-state of ancient Greece

• citizen

• isthmus

• tyranny

• polis

a person with legal rights and responsibilities in a city-state

• metic

• citizen

• aristocracy

• tyranny

a type of government in which one person rules in a harsh and brutal way

• citizen

• helot

• democracy

• tyranny

an enslaved person in Sparta

• helot

• logic

• metic

• city-state

a foreigner living in a Greek city

• logic

• democracy

• metic

• tyranny

a group of people who listen to information presented in court

• helot

• jury

• democracy

• ologarchy

the study of the ways of thinking and making reasonable arguments

• metic

• tyranny

• aristocracy

• logic