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  • In Ancient Greece, what were Athens, Sparta and Corinth?
    • countries
    • armies
    • city-states  ✓
    • councils
  • What happened at the Pnyx in Athens?
    • The Assembly met once a month.  ✓
    • There was a weekly market.
    • There were shows and performances.
    • The army did their training.
  • Match the keywords to the definitions.
    • enslaved person
      ⇔
      someone owned by someone else who forces them to work with no pay ✓
    • council
      ⇔
      a group of 500 men that looked after the city business in Athens ✓
    • army
      ⇔
      people who have the job to defend a country on land usually in war ✓
    • farmer
      ⇔
      someone who makes a living growing crops or rearing animals ✓
  • Which people did each of these things in Athens?
    • spoke in the Assembly
      ⇔
      men ✓
    • owned property
      ⇔
      men ✓
    • gave orders to enslaved people
      ⇔
      men and women ✓
    • bought goods
      ⇔
      men and women ✓
    • wove cloth and made clothes
      ⇔
      women ✓
    • carried out their owners' wishes
      ⇔
      enslaved people ✓
  • Complete the sentence. Athens is situated at the coast, so it made a lot of money from trading by ______.
    • 'seafaring' ✓
  • Complete the sentence with a single word. Athens is where ______ began.
    • 'democracy' ✓
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