| A | B |
|---|
| democracy | government by the people |
| aristocrats | members of the upper class |
| city-state | city that runs itself |
| citizens | those who take part in the government |
| helots | slaves of Ancient Greece |
| infantry | foot soldiers |
| cavalry | horseback soldiers |
| oligarchy | wealthy people who hold power over the larger group of citizens |
| epic | long poem style of writing |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom and art |
| Minoans | earliest Greece civilization |
| polis | a city state |
| tyrant | man that would seize power and rule the polis single handedly |
| Zeus | chief god;god of weather |
| homer | blind man who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey |
| ostracism | get rid of something or someone;6000 votes to be kicked out |
| Mycenaeans | wiped out the Minoans |
| Olympics | games held to honor gods |
| Dorians | wiped out the Mycenaeans |
| Crete | island southeast of the Greek mainland |
| metic | non landowners and foreigners |
| Draco | tyrant;issued an improved code of laws in 621 B.C. |
| Solon | helped commoners by dismissing delot and limiting amount of land that rich can own |
| Peisistratus | took over the government of Athens; he helped divide large estates among landless farmers |
| Cleisthenes | fourth tyrant to help reform Athens |
