Unit 3 Chapter 3 Vocabulary: Ancient Greece

a chain of islands

• democracy

• tyranny

• archipelago

• polis

a group of people who listen to information presented in court and make decisions about whether or not someone is guilty

• jury

• colony

• helot

• tyranny

an enslaved person in Spart

• metic

• helot

• citizen

• oligarchy

a city-state of ancient Greece

• logic

• colony

• isthmus

• polis

the upper or noble class whose members' status is usually passed down through family; government by such class

• oligarchy

• democracy

• aristocracy

• citizen

a narrow piece of land that connects two larger landmasses

• colony

• archipelago

• democracy

• isthmus

in ancient Greece, a person with legal rights and responsibilities in a city-state

• helot

• citizen

• metic

• tyrrany

the study of ways of thinking and making reasonable arguments

• polis

• logic

• colony

• isthmus

a foreigner living in an ancient Greek City

• metic

• jury

• helot

• citizen

a type of government in which one person holds all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way

• democracy

• aristocracy

• tyranny

• oligarchy