SS Lesson 26 Vocab/Study Guide

Question 1

Aristocrat

Answer 1

A member of the most powerful class in Ancient Greek society

Question 2

Assembly

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Citizen

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Democracy

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Hostile

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Ignored

Answer 6

To knowingly nit pay attention to something or someone

Question 7

Implemented

Answer 7

To put a decision or plan into effect

Question 8

Insisted

Answer 8

Firmly and repeated stating a point of view

Question 9

Monarchy

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Oligarchy

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Required

Answer 11

To have to do something based on a rule or command

Question 12

Reversed

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Tyranny

Answer 13

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

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The got poorer

Question 15

What was the same throughout the Greek city-states?

Answer 15

They spoke the same 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 male citizens

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

The idea that people should rule themselves like democracy

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Their’s was a direct democracy where they voted directly on all issues. Ours is a representative democracy

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 liked?

Answer 23

Most were military leaders. They promised more rights and improved lives of the poor.

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

A tyrant

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Army leaders and poor people

Question 28

What kind 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, late night parties, and chariot races

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Oligarchs

Question 31

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

Answer 31

New ruling group called oligarchies

Question 32

Who belonged to the council of aristocrats?

Answer 32

Rich men who had inherited land through their families

Question 33

How did most king sin Ancient Greece come to power?

Answer 33

Inheritance of their father’s power

Question 34

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

Answer 34

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