- Hoplite
- A heavily armed and armored citizen-soldier of ancient Greece.
- Phalanx
- a unit of several hundred hoplites.
- Monarchy
- a state in which supreme power is held by a single ruler.
- Oligarchy
- a state in which supreme power is held by a small group.
- Triremes
- massive fighting vessels with three banks of oars.
- Tyranny
- rule by a self proclaimed dictator.
- Democracy
- (ancient Greece) a form of government in which all adult male citizens were entitled to take part in decision making.
- Helots
- noncitizens forced to work for landholders in the ancient city of Sparta.
- Aristocrats
- members of prominent and long-established Athenian families.
- Ostracism
- banishment for ten years by majority vote of the Athenian Assembly.
- The Dark Ages began to develop into city-states
- Greek city-states were small places, mostly a few square miles surrounding the countryside
- Fortresses and temples were vitally important to the city
- Fiercely competitive
- Worshiped Gods or Goddesses
- The Greek language was the first language to have a word for a member of a community
Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy:
- City-states = ruled by kings and their warriors
- City developed into large commercials gave more power to majority
- City states = narrow and exclusive
- They sent citizens to overseas = independent states
Greek City-states:
- Small places, generally consist of no more than a town and a few square miles of countryside.
- Athens and Sparta were giants among city-states
- About the size of a couple US counties
- Each only had about a few thousand people
- The male citizens went to war for the Greeks
- They had to pay for the things that they carried into war with them
- Such as bronze helmets and armor, round shields, long spears with iron blades, and short iron swords.
- Alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt there now appeared a third great civilization: that of classical Greece.
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