Ancient Greece
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- monarchy
- a government that a king or queen rules
- Sparta
- a large city-state in the Peloponnesus, focused on fighting
- polis
- the Greek word for city-state
- citizen
- a person who is loyal to a government and who is entitled to protection by that government
- Athens
- a city-state, capital of Greece, good education
- Marathon
- a plain in ancient greece, Athenians won a battle here
- agora
- the center of city life
- tyrant
- someone who took power in an illegal way
- alphabet
- a system of symbols
- peninsula
- a body of land that has water on 3 sides
- democracy
- a government in which the citizens make political decisions
- Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas
- These were the bodies of water surrounding Greece
- isthmus
- a narrow strip of land that links the Peloponnesus to the rest of Greece
- farming
- only 20-30% of greece was used for this
- Homer
- He wrote the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"
- mountains
- these cover 70-80% of Greece
- Mount Olympus
- The highest mt. in Greece, gods believed to live there
- epic poems
- long poems that told stories
- Fish
- Greeks eat a lot of this
- Phoenicians
- another important trading people who lived on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, started the greek alphabet
- fable
- a short story that teaches a moral lesson, usually involves animals
- Zeus
- the ruler of the gods
- Peloponnesus
- a peninsula forming the sourthern part of Greece
- sea
- this body of water influneced Greece a lot
- oligarchy
- means "rule by the few"
- Aesop
- He wrote a lot of fables
- limited democracy
- when the democracy does not include all the people who lived in the city-state
- Olympics
- games held every 4 years as part of a major festival to honor Zeus
- myth
- stories that people tell to explain beliefs about their world
- aristocracy
- another name for the upper class or nobility