Ancient Greece Vocabulary

Membership is a state or community which gives a person civil and political right and obligations is

Lyric Poetry is

Messenian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by Sparta is a

The upper part of an ancient Greek city where public building and the city's defenses were located

The worship of many gods or dieties is known as

A form of gov't in which citizens hold political power is a

Greek military formation of heavily armored foot soldiers who moved together as a unit

An 18 foot long Macedonian pike is called a

A citizen is a

A hypothesis is a logical guess

A gov't in which a small group of people rule is known as

One of 5 elected people responsible for the day to day operations of the gov't in Sparta is

A Greek city state is a

The civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome are know as "classical civilization"

A form of teaching in which the teacher asks question after question to force students to think more clearly

A collection of myths and stories that people tell about their gods and heroes is

The Olympic Games started in ancient Greece to honor the god Poseiden

Tyranny is:

The form of Greek culture that emerged after Alexander's conquests is known as

A collection of myths or stories that people tell about their gods and heroes are known as Polytheism