Glossary Terms

Question 1

Acropolis

Answer 1

• Fortified citadel in the city center
• Significant religious buildings

Question 2

Agora

Answer 2

• Marketplace
• Civic and social center

Question 3

Apoikia

Answer 3

• Colony

Question 4

Archons

Answer 4

• Nine magistrates of Athens
• Appointed yearly

Question 5

Athlon

Answer 5

• The prize of an athletic competition

Question 6

Democracy

Answer 6

• Power of the people

Question 7

Demos

Answer 7

• People
• Lower class

Question 8

Ekklesia

Answer 8

• Assembly of citizens of Athens
• Open to all male citizens of age
• Direct representation in government

Question 9

Ethnos

Answer 9

• Community organized by shared culture, customs, and religion

Question 10

Gymnasium

Answer 10

• Place to practice sport

Question 11

Hegemon

Answer 11

• Leader of an alliance
• War leader

Question 12

Hektemoroi

Answer 12

• People who lived on the land and owed 1/6th of their produce to the land owner

Question 13

Kore

Answer 13

• Maidens in Archaic Deadalic sculptures

Question 14

Koroui

Answer 14

• Nude young men in deadalic sculptures

Question 15

Oikistes

Answer 15

• Founder of a colony

Question 16

Perioikoi

Answer 16

• “Dwellers around”
• Free people around Sparta who did not have full rights
• Different from Helots because they were not slaves

Question 17

Stenochoria

Answer 17

• Lack of land necessitating colonization

Question 18

Seisachteia

Answer 18

• Shaking off the burdens
• The outlawing of debt slavery by Cleisthenes

Question 19

Phylai

Answer 19

• Tribes in Athens