Ancient GreeceVocabulary Words

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AcropolisA large hill which the Greeks built

their city-states around

agoraA place where Greeks meet and conduct business

assembly

• A lawmaking place where people voted on issues that helped

citizen

• A person who has a certain rights

Colony

• A group of people that came to settle from a different country

democracy

• A form of gov. that the people decide

jury

• They hear and decide whose guilty

monarchy

• Gov headed by one ruler

polis

• A Greek city-state

philosophy

• A study of wisdom and he right to live

peninsula

• an area of land nearly surrounded by water

Peloponnesian war

• the war between Sparta and Athens

oligarchy

• the kind o government that is ran by a small group of people

harbor

• a sheltered place or coastline