| A | B |
|---|
| City-State | Independent, self-governing |
| Democracy | government in which people share in the decision making |
| Monarchy | government in which a king rules the people |
| Oligarchy | government in which a few people rule over a larger group |
| Tyrant | government in which a ruler seizes power and shares it with no one |
| Barter | exchanging goods without using money |
| Sanctuary | a sacred place where people honor gods |
| Tragedy | a drama in which the hero is brought to defeat by a flaw in his or her character |
| Comedy | a play that is funny and has a happy ending |
| Ephor | one of five elected officials who had supervisory power over the Spartan kings |
| Helot | a state slave in ancient Sparta |
| Peloponnesus | large peninsula located in southern Greece |
| Mount Olympus | Greeks believed it was the home to all of the Gods |
| Aegean Sea | The sea that is on the eastern boundary of Greece |
| Ionian Sea | the sea that is on the western boundary of Greece |
| Crete | the Greek island located in southern Greece |
| Minoans and Mycenaeans | the earliest Greek civilizations |
| Sanctuary of Delphi | the place where Greeks honored Apollo |
| Sanctuary of Olympia | sanctuary to Zeus, and the location of the Olympics |
| Sparta | city-state , oligarchy, emphasized military and discipline |
| Athens | used democracy, farming and trading, not very military |
| Sparta's population | 25,000 citizens and 250,000 slaves |
| Darius | Persian king during the battle of Marathon |
| Xerxes | Son of Darius; Persian king during battle of Thermopylae |
