Vocab

3. A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields
7. A city-state in ancient Greece.
14. This type of column is the most complex, with carvings that looks like leaves at the top.
15. Cruel and oppressive government or rule
16. a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
17. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
18. A government ruled by a king or queen

1. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
2. merge of Greek culture with that of the Middle east. Cultures merged when Alexander the great began moving/conquering to the east.
4. A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility
5. A form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives
6. Spartan slaves
8. lover of, or searcher for, wisdom or knowledge; person who regulates his or her life by the light of reason
9. A government ruled by a few powerful people
10. Column The oldest and simplest of the three main orders of classical Greek architecture, characterized by heavy fluted columns with plain, saucer-shaped capitals and no base.
11. This is a Greek column with short, fluted shafts and scroll-like decorations on its capital.
12. Greek for "high city". The chief temples of the city were located here.
13. A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.