6th - SS Chapters 10 Key Terms

Question 0

Legal member of a country or city-state

Answer 0

Citizen

Question 1

Greek city-state

Answer 1

Polis

Question 2

“High city” in Greek; the upper part of an Ancient Greek city, where public buildings and the city’s defenses were located

Answer 2

Acropolis

Question 3

Hereditary class of rulers, Greek for “rule by the best people”

Answer 3

Aristocracy

Question 4

Person who pays rent, either in money or crops, to grow crops on another person’s land.

Answer 4

Tenant farmer

Question 5

Foreigner in a Greek city-state, often a merchant or artisan

Answer 5

Metic

Question 6

Ownership and control of other people as property

Answer 6

Slavery

Question 7

Government in which a small group of people rule.

Answer 7

Oligarchy

Question 8

Government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government

Answer 8

Direct democracy

Question 9

Greek military formation of heavily armed foot soldiers who moved together as a unit

Answer 9

Phalanx

Question 10

Unjust use of power, or in Ancient Greece a government run by a strong ruler

Answer 10

Tyranny

Question 11

Form of government in which citizens hold political power

Answer 11

Democracy

Question 12

Membership in a state or community which gives a person civil and political rights and obligations

Answer 12

Citizenship

Question 13

Democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation’s laws

Answer 13

Representative democracy

Question 14

Man responsible for the day-to-day operation of the government

Answer 14

Ephor

Question 15

Messensian person forced to work as a lowly farmer by Sparta

Answer 15

Helot

Question 16

Society organized for the purpose of waging war

Answer 16

Military state

Question 17

Military housing

Answer 17

Barracks