| A | B |
|---|
| Democracy | Gov't that is run by the people. |
| Aristocrates | Landowning nobles of the upper class that have ruled. |
| City-state | City that runs itself. |
| Citizens | People who take part in the gov't. |
| Helots | Slaves of Ancient Greece. |
| Infantry | Foot soldiers. |
| Calvary | Horseback soldiers. |
| Oligarchy | Small group of wealthy people who rule. |
| Epic | Long poem. |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom. |
| Minoans | Earliest of Greek civilizations. |
| Polis | Greek city. |
| Tyrant | Someone who forcibly takes control and rules alone. |
| Zeus | Chief god (weather and sky) |
| Homer | Blind creator of important works of literature. |
| Ostracism | System of voting and if more than 6,000 you were exiled for the city for 10 years. |
| Myceaneans | Conquered Minoans |
| Dorians | Conquered Myceaneans and entered Dark Age. |
| Olympics | Sports competition to honor the gods. |
| Crete | island were minoans ran their trading enterprise. |
| Metic | Non-landowning foreigner. |
| Draco | Tyrant who wrote harsh laws for Athens. |
| Solon | Tyrant who helped commoners by dissmissing debt and limited land. |
| Peisistratus | Divided large estates among commoners. Nonlandowners could be citizens. |
| Cleisthenes | Continued expansion of citizenship to everyone, but women and slaves. |
