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greece vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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settlement | a small community or village |
shelter | a place that provides protection from weather, such as a house |
colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
merchant | a person who makes money by selling goods |
monarch | a single ruler, such as a king, queen, or emperor,who holds all the power in a country or empire |
aristocrat | a member of the most powerful class in ancient greek society |
oligarch | one of several people who rule a country or empire together, sharing the power |
tyrant | a person who seizes power illegally |
citizen | a member of a democracy, who has certain rights and responsibilites |
assembly | a group of citizens in an ancient greek democracy with the power to pass laws |
peloponnesus | the peninsula forming the southern part of the mainland of greece |
agora | a marketplace in ancient greece |
priestess | a female priest |
cavalry | soldiers who ride on horses |
hellespont | the long, narrow body of water between europe and asia in present-day turkey |
acropolis | the hill above a greek city on which a temples were built |
parthenon | the temple honoring the goddess athena, built on the acropolis above athens |
myth | a traditional story that helps to explain a culture's beliefs |
archetecture | the art of designing buildings |
sculpture | the art of creating three-demensional figures from materials as wood, stone, and clay |
drama | the art of writing, acting in, and producing plays |
oracle | a name given to a priest or priestess that can talk the gods |