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

A government in which power is held by the people, who exercise power directly or through elected representatives

Answer 4

Democracy

Question 5

To act in a way that is unfriendly and angry toward a particular person or object

Answer 5

Hostile

Question 6

To knowingly not pay attention to something or someone

Answer 6

Ignored

Question 7

To put a decision or plan into effect

Answer 7

Implemented

Question 8

Firmly and repeatedly stating a point of view

Answer 8

Insisted

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Monarchy

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Oligarchy

Question 11

To have to do something based on a rule or command

Answer 11

Required

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Reversed

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Tyranny

Question 14

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

Answer 14

They became poorer

Question 15

What was the same throughout the Greek city-states?

Answer 15

Language

Question 16

Ancient Greece communities are called ____.

Answer 16

City-states

Question 17

The lawmaking group in Athens was called the ____ and all ____ could vote in it.

Answer 17

Assembly, free men

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Aristocrats

Question 19

In a Monarchy the king has what type of power?

Answer 19

Absolute power

Question 20

What idea that is important today came from ancient Athens?

Answer 20

People should rule themselves like a democracy

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Citizens voted directly on all issues

Question 22

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

Answer 22

All citizens shared ruling power

Question 23

Why were some tyrants well like?

Answer 23

They made laws that improved people’s lives

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Mid 600s B.C.E.

Question 25

In a tyranny, what allowed the leader to rule?

Answer 25

Military force

Question 26

Who would have said these words ( I was in the army when people began to complain about members 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 26

Tyrant

Question 27

Oligarchs were thrown out of power by a partnership between ____.

Answer 27

Army leaders, poor people

Question 28

What kinds of laws did the oligarchs pass?

Answer 28

Laws that favored the rich

Question 29

What might an oligarch do on an ordinary day?

Answer 29

Hunting, chariot races, parties at night

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Oligarchy

Question 31

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

Answer 31

New ruling group called oligarchy

Question 32

Who belonged to the councils of aristocrats?

Answer 32

Rich men who had land from their families

Question 33

How did most kings in Ancient Greece come to power?

Answer 33

Inherited it by a relative

Question 34

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

Answer 34

The steep mountains kept people from different areas apart

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Monarchy