CHAPTER 5 LESSON 2Warring City-States

Vocabulary• POLIS.- A Greek city-state of

ancient Greece after about 750 B.C.

ACROPOLIS

• Fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city.

MONARCHYGovernment ruled by a king or queen.

ARISTOCRACY

• Government ruled by a small group of noble families.

OLIGARCHY

• Government ruled by a few powerful people.

TYRANT

• Powerful ruler who gained control of a city-state government by asking the poor people for support.

DEMOCRACY

Govenment ruled by the citizens and their representatives.

HELOT

• Peasant forced to stay on the land.

PHALANX

• Side-byside fighting formation of Greek foot soldiers.

PHALANX

PERSIAN WAR

• Wars in the fifth century B.C. that Greeks and city-states battled the Persian Empire.