U3, Ch. 3 Ancient Greece Pt. 1 Vocabulary

A chain of islands

• isthmus

• polis

• archipelago

• metic

a form of government in which people choose their leaders

• oligarchy

• democracy

• aristocracy

• tyranny

city-state of ancient Greece

• isthmus

• colony

• metic

• polis

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

• citizen

• metic

• helot

• jury

the study of ways of thinking and making reasonable arguments

• archipelago

• logic

• aristocracy

• colony

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

• aristocracy

• democracy

• tyranny

• oligarchy

an area settled by people who come from elsewhere

• helot

• metic

• polis

• colony

the upper or noble class whose members' status is usually passed down through family

• oligarchy

• aristocracy

• democracy

• tyranny

narrow piece of land that connects two larger landmasses

• archipelago

• isthmus

• colony

• polis

a government where all power is held by a small group of wealthy or powerful people

• democracy

• tyranny

• aristocracy

• oligarchy