| A | B |
|---|
| epic | a long adventure story |
| peninsula | land surrounded on three sides by water |
| colony | a settlement in a distant land |
| maritime | a sea based culture |
| polis | a Greek city and surrounding land-city state |
| aristocracy | rule by nobles and land owners |
| sponsor | a person who pays for an event |
| democracy | rule by the people |
| spartan | hard or severe-very little |
| tyrant | ruling by force-a dictator |
| Xerxes | Persian king who tried to conquer the Greeks |
