Ch.7 Vocabulary

a piece of land nearly surrounded by water

• polis

• colony

• peninsula

• agora

a gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece

• agora

• polis

• democracy

• peninsula

a Greek city-state

• oligarchy

• polis

• tyrant

• colony

a group of people living in anew territory who have ties to their homeland

• colony

• phalanx

• peninsula

• tyrant

someone who writes or performs; epic poems or stories about heroes and their deeds

• ephor

• philosopher

• colony

• bard

a group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows

• representative democracy

• tyrant

• phalanx

• oligarchy

an absolute ruler unrestrained by law

• tyrant

• democracy

• polis

• peninsula

a government in which a small group has control

• colony

• tyrant

• democracy

• oligarchy

a government by the people

• oligarchy

• phalanx

• democracy

• helot

enslaved person inancient Sparta

• ephor

• tyrant

• polis

• helot