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Greece Vocabulary

BY NATHAN RYDER
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SETTLEMENT IN A NEW TERRITORYTHAT KEEPS CLOSE TIES WITH ITS HOMELAND
TYRANT WHO SEIZED POWER 30 YEARS AFTER TURMOIL LEFT WHEN SOLON DIED; GAVE NOBLES LAND TO THE POOR AND GAVE THEM JOBS
OFFICIAL WHO RULED A STATE IN THE PERSIAN EMPIRE UNDER DARIUS
GREAT ATHENIAN GENERAL AND STATESMAN;EXPANDED DEMOCRACY BY ALLOWING LOWER CLASS MEN TO RUN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE AND VOTE
EARLY GREEK CITY STATE, MADE OF A CITY AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY SIDE AND RUN LIKE A INDEPENDENT COUNTRY
PERSIAN RELIGION; TAUGHT THAT HUMANS HAD THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG AND THAT GOODNESS WOULD WIN IN THE END, MONOTHEISTIC
KING OF PERSIA,DIVIDED GOVERNMENT INTO 20 STATES CALLED SATRAPIES BECAUSE THE EMPIRE WAS TO BIG TO CONTROL
SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN WHICH PEOPLE VOTE FOR SOMEONE TO SPEAK, AND VOTE FOR THEM ON MATTERS
PERSON CONQURED AND ENSLAVED BY SPARTANS
1ST GREEK KINGS, INVADED MINOANS AND TOOK CONTROL OF GREECE, COPIED MINOAN CULTURE
20 STATES INTO WHICH DARIUS DIVIDED THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
BELIEF IN MANY GODS
PERSON WHO TAKES POWER BY FORCE AND RULES WITH ABSOLUTE POWER AND AUTHORITY
GOVERMENT IN WHICH A FEW ELITE,WEALTHY PEOPLE RULE
INDEPENDANT STATE MADE UP OF A CITY AND THE SURROUNDING LAND AND VILLAGES
KING OF PERSIA,BUILT PERSIA INTO A GREAT EMPIRE
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MOST IMPORTANT LEADER AFTER PEISISTRAUS DIED, REORGANIZED ASSEMBLY TO PLAY CENTRAL GOVERNING ROLE, MADE NEW ASSEMBLY OF 500 LOTTERY WINNERS
SYSTEM OF GOVERMENT IN WHICH ALL CITIZENS MAKE DECISIONS ON GOVERNMENTAL MATTERS
AREA WHICH NOW IS SOUTHWEST IRAN, PEOPLE WERE WARRIORS AND NOMADS
LARGEST ANCIENT GREEK CITY STATES; WERE WARRIORS, HAD A OLIGARCHY
GROUP OF CITIZENS WHO WERE CHOSEN TO HEAR EVIDENCE AND MAKE A DECISION IN A COURT OF LAW
CITY STATE IN ACIENT GREECEWHICH DEVOLPED A DEMOCRACY
ATHENIAN NOBLE,BROUGHT REFORMS TO GREECE,CANCELLED FARMERS DEPT,FREED SLAVES,ALLOWED ALL MALE CITIZENS TOPARTICIPATE IN ASSEMBALYBUT DIDN'T GIVE AWAY NOBLES LAND
LEAGUE CREATED BY ATHENS AND OTHER CITY-STATES, PROMISED TO DEFEND IT'S MEMBERS AGAINST PERSIANS
GOVERMENT RULED BY A KING AND QUEEN
GOVERMENT IN WHICH ALL CITIZENS SHARE IN THE RUNNING OF THE GOVERNMENT
BODY OF LAND WITH WATER ON THREE SIDES
OPEN AREA THAT SERVED AS A MARKET PLACE AND MEETING PLACE
NOT GREEK BUT CIVILIZATION WAS LST IN AREA, BECAME GREECE, MADE WEALTH FROM TRADE
LARGE HILL, IN CENTER OF CITY WHERE PEOPLE SOUGHT SHELTER AND SAFTY IN TIMES OF WAR AND MET TO DISCUSS COMMUNITY ISSUES
PERSON WITH RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN THIER COMMUNITY OR COUNTRY,IN GREECE ONLY MALES COULD BE CITIZENS
LAWMAKING BODY OF GOVERNMENT MADE UP OF A CITIZEN