ROMAN EMPIRE VOCAB.

COLONY

• Settlement in a new land
• which has close ties to it's
• homeland

PENINSULA

• Body of land surrounded
• by water

POLIS

• The early Greek city-state,
• made of the city and the
• countryside around it and
• was run like an independent
• country

AGORA

• Open area that was a market
• and meeting place in early
• city-states

TYRANT

• Someone who takes power
• by force and rules with total
• authority

OLIGARCHY

• Government in which power
• is held by a small group of
• people

DEMOCRACY

• Government where all
• citizens share the running
• of it

HELOT

• People who were conquered
• and enslaved by the Spartans

Acropolis

• Fortified area on a hill, was
• used as a refuge, a gathering
• place, and sometimes a
• religious center

SATRAP

• Official who ruled a state
• under Parius in the Persian
• Empire

SATRAPIES

• 20 states in which Persian
• Empire was divided by
• Darius

THE END!

SOURCES

• http://www.123rf.com/photo_7906128_ruins-of-ancient-greek-colony-khersones-...
• http://www.greeka.com/greece-maps/ancient-greece-map.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Attica_06-13_Athens_50_View_from_Philopap...
• http://www.churchofchrist-cg-az.com/Bible-Archaeology-Letters.html
• http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/M819196/Hippocrates-Greek-Tyrant...

SOURCES 2

• http://anicentg.blogspot.com
• http://tccl.rit.albany.edu/knilt/index.php/Lesson_3:_How_did_the_ancient_Gr...
• http://sparta.edublogs.org/people/
• http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/persia.html