Chapter 5 Define Vocab
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- export
- Service sold to another region
- terracing
- Carving small, flat plots of land from hillside to use for farming
- polis
- Greek word for city-state
- aristocracies
- nobles that controlled the Greek city-states
- archons
- rulers in ancient Athens who served one-year terms
- agora
- marketplace
- metics
- People who worked and payed taxes but could not own land or take part in government
- hoplite
- heavy infantry who carri
- direct democracy
- a form of government where all citizens participate in making decisions
- democracy
- government that the citizens take part in
- oracles
- Where Greeks believed gods spoke through priests and priestesses
- representive democracy
- form of government where citizens elect representatives to run the government for them
- popular government
- belief that people should rule over themselves
- ethics
- Study of what is good and bad
- myths
- traditional stories created by the gods about gods, goddesses, and heroes
- pedagogue
- The person that boys at the age of seven were put under the care of
- tyrants
- rulers who achieved power by force and exercised brutal power
- frescoes
- paintings made on wet plaster walls
- helots
- people conquered ny the Pelopnnesus
- import
- Service bought from another region
- rhetoric
- Study of public speaking and debating
- acropolis
- hill
- ephorss
- five officials that made sure the king followed the law