| A | B |
|---|
| Democracy | form of government in which the citizens hold power |
| Aristocrats | members of the nobility or the upper class |
| helots | slaves of Ancient Greece |
| cavalry | soldiers mounted on horseback |
| epic | long poem celebrating the deeds of a legendary or historical hero. |
| Minoans | the earliest of the Greece civilizations |
| tyrant | in Ancient Greece, a person who seized power and established one man rule |
| Homer | the blind creator of the Illiad and the Odyssey. |
| Mycenaeans | people fro India who wiped out the Minoans. |
| citizens | in Ancient Greece, a person who took part in the government of a city-state |
| city-state | an independent state consisting of a city and villages |
| infantry | important foot soldiers of the army |
| oligarchy | form of government in which a small group holds political power |
| Athena | the Greek goddess of wisdom |
| polis | city-state of ancient greece |
| Zeus | the Greek God of Skey and Weather (the main god) |
| ostracism | a systemthe Athenians used to get rid of bad citizens. |
| Olympics | the sports competition that was held b/w the cit-states. |
| Dorians | conquered the Mycenaeans. |
| Crete | island where the Minoans used to live |
| metic | foreigners outside of the city-state that couldnt takepart in governing |
| Draco | wrote down the laws of Athens so that everyone knew the law. |
| Solon | helped the commoners b dismissing debt and limiting amount of land that rich can own. |
| Peisistratus | he divided large states among the commoners an allowed non-land owners to be citizensd |
| Cleisthenes | continued te exansion of citizenship to everyone escept slaves and women |
