An independent city that controlled the surrounding area
Rhodes
City-state
Citizen
Acropolis
"High city" in Greek; the upper part of an ancient Greek city
Citizen
Politics
Aristocracy
Acropolis
Art and practice of government according to the Greeks
Acropolis
Politics
Citizen
Peninsula
Largest Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of Greece
Athens
Peninsula
Oligarchy
Crete
A Greek island, lying east of Crete in the Aegean Sea
Athens
Rhodes
Crete
Peninsula
The capital of Greece and the most powerful of all ancient Greek city-states
Athens
Tyranny
Crete
Peninsula
Political power held by a small group of people
Rhodes
Athens
Democracy
Oligarchy
A system of government in which citizens vote to make governmental decisions
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Citizenship
Democracy
Membership in a community in which people help make government decisions
Rhodes
Citizenship
tyranny
Crete
A political system in which citizens participate directly in decision-making
Sparta
Aristotle
Phalanx
Direct Democracy
A political system where citizens elect others to represent them in government
Sparta
Socrates
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
The largest ancient Greek city-state, located on the southern Peloponnesus
Citizen
Democracy
Sparta
Phalanx
Greek philosopher; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth
Phalanx
Socrates
Representative Democracy
Direct Democracy
