Ss Lesson 26 Vocab/study Guide

Question 1

A member of the most powerful class in Ancient Greek society

Answer 1

Aristocrat

Question 2

A group of citizens, in an Ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws

Answer 2

Assembly

Question 3

A person who has certain rights and duties in a city-state or nation

Answer 3

Citizen

Question 4

To actin a way that is u friendly and angry toward a particular person or object

Answer 4

Hostile

Question 5

To knowingly not pay attention to something or someone

Answer 5

Ignored

Question 6

To put a decision or plan into effect

Answer 6

Implemented

Question 7

Firmly and repeatedly stating a point of view

Answer 7

Insisted

Question 8

A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person

Answer 8

Monarchy

Question 9

A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of a few people

Answer 9

Oligarchy

Question 10

To have todo something based on a rule or command

Answer 10

Required

Question 11

To act or decide in a way that is the opposite of what has been established

Answer 11

Reversed

Question 12

Government in which absolute ruling power is held by a person who is not a lawful king

Answer 12

Tyranny

Question 13

Under the rule of the oligarchs, what happens to most of the poor people?

Answer 13

Got poorer

Question 14

What was the same throughout the Greek city-states

Answer 14

Language

Question 15

Ancient Greece communities are called _____

Answer 15

City-states

Question 16

The lawmaking group in Athens was called the _____ and all ______ could vote in it

Answer 16

Assembly and free men citizens

Question 17

In times of war the king relied on the __________ for money to raise and supply an army

Answer 17

Artistocrats

Question 18

In a monarchy the king has what type of power?

Answer 18

Absolute power

Question 19

What idea that is important today came from ancient Athens

Answer 19

People should rule themselves like a democracy

Question 20

How was Ancient Greek democracy different from democracy in the United States

Answer 20

Citizens voted directly on all issues

Question 21

How was democracy in Athens different form other ancient forms of government?

Answer 21

All citizens shared ruling power

Question 22

Why were some tyrants well like?

Answer 22

Made laws that improved people’s lives

Question 23

What time did many city-states come under the rule of tyrants?

Answer 23

During the mid 600’s

Question 24

In a tyranny what allowed the leader to rule?

Answer 24

Force

Question 25

Who would have said these words (I was in the army when people began to complain about embers of the government getting richer while everybody else was getting poorer. So I stepped forward, and with the people’s help, I became a leader)

Answer 25

Tyrant

Question 26

Oligarchs were thrown out of power by a partnership between _____

Answer 26

Military leader and the poor

Question 27

What kinds of laws did the oligarchs pass?

Answer 27

They passed laws that favored the rich

Question 28

What might an oligarch do on an ordinary day?

Answer 28

Chariot race, partying at night and hunting

Question 29

Which word in English comes from a Greek word meaning “few”?

Answer 29

Oligarch

Question 30

What happened to the king’s advisers after the king lost power?

Answer 30

New ruling group (Oligarchy)

Question 31

Who belonged to the councils of artistocrats?

Answer 31

Wealthy men

Question 32

How did most kings come from power?

Answer 32

Inherited from relative

Question 33

How was it possible that different parts of Greece had different forms of government?

Answer 33

Geography affected Ancient Greece because there was isolated communities seperated from each other by mountains the communities grew in diverse ways.

Question 34

Which form of government in a Greek city-states usually came first?

Answer 34

Monarchy