Social layers: groups of people who differ from each other in wealth, power and prestige.
Colony: a new city that was started overseas
Polis (plural: poleis): Greek city-state
Agora: the main marketplace in a polis
Acropolis: the inner keep of the city where most of the temples were
Dark ages: time historians cannot “see”, because there is no information about it
Oral Tradition: stories are not written down, but passed on from person to person by telling
Metoiks: people that were born in a different polis
Social pyramid: graph to show the differences in power, wealth and/or influence in a country
Slave: person owned by someone else, slaves were at the bottom of the social pyramid
Middle class: social layer of merchants and such individuals
Lower class: (poor) working people with little power
Upper class: ruling class of people