Ancient Greece

Vocabulary:

City-State-city with an independent government

Unification-bringing together, becoming one unit

Cyclopean Walls-walls that looked like they were built by Cyclops since they were very messy-looking

Acropolis-fortified hilltop

Polis-city-state

Monarchy-rule of one

Oligarchy-rule of the few, power by rising to the top

Aristocracy-type of oligarchy, power by wealth

Tyranny-rule of one

Democracy-rule of many

Representative Democracy-type of democracy, people elect leaders to speak on our behalf

Direct Democracy-everyone votes and has a say

Limited Democracy- only certain citizens could vote and have a say

Assembly-all citizens came together in one place

Council of 500- a group of 500 citizens randomly selected from a lottery

Debt Slavery-when you don’t have enough money to pay off your debt, the person you own money to will take you as their slave

Palace of Knossos-a place where people would talk about government with frescos over the whole palace

Trojan Horse- a wooden horse that Odysseus and a few soldiers hid in to get into the city

The Odyssey-one of Homer’s famous 2 poems, about Odysseus’s journey home to Ithaca

The Iliad-one of Homer’s famous 2 poems, about the Trojan War