| A | B |
|---|
| A plain near Athens and the site of a battle in the Persian Wars | Marathon |
| A military house in Sparta | Barracks |
| A slave in Sparta | Helot |
| A government in which the citizens are involved in political decisions directly or through elected representatives is a(n) | Democracy |
| A person who is loyal to a government and is entitled to protection by the government | Citizen |
| Someone who took power in an illegal way | Tyrant |
| A government in which a small group rules | Oligarchy |
| A government in which the upper class rules | Aristocracy |
| The Greek word for city-state | Polis |
| A short story that teaches a moral lesson | Fable |
| Long poems that told stories | Epic Poems |
| Games held every four years in Greece to honor the gods | Olympics |
| Stories that people tell to explain beliefs about their world | Myths |
| The highest mountain in Greece and home to the Greek gods | Mount Olympus |
| The ruler of the Greek gods | Zeus |
| A system of symbols that stands for sounds | Alphabet |
| A group of trading people on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean | Phoenicians |
| A narrow strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land | Isthmus |
| The southern peninsula of Greece | Peloponnesus |
| A body of land that has water on three sides | Peninsula |
