Agora: Market place used to keep meetings.

 

Aristocrats: nobles, rich landowners or rich merchants usually ruled the polis.

 

Assembly: A council which makes suggestions to the senate, members are usually Plebians.

 

Barbarians: Those tribes inside or outside of the Roman empire, who did not have the same belief, culture or civilization.

 

Chivalry: Religous, moral and social system, of the Middle Ages based on courage and honor.

 

Clergy: All the members of the church like: Pope, cardinal, arch bishop, vicar and priest.

 

Council: (In republic) -Senate (S)

                                -Assembly (A)

 

Democracy: A political system in which citizens have a say in the government of their state.

 

Feudalism: System of society in the middle ages based on the given land, given by the landlord to his vassal.

 

Gladiator: ex-soldiers, they were caught in wars and used for entertaining.

 

Pact: Secret agreement

 

Patricians: Roman name for aristocrats. (A)

 

Patron God: protector of the polis. (P)

 

Plebians: poor citizens in Rome.

 

Polis: A Greek name of the city-state.

 

Politics: to deal with the cases of the state.

 

Senate: a council which helps the king rule and also makes laws.

 

State: A group of people living in a certain area. A state has it's own rules, tax system and army.

 

Veteran: A soldier who has already been in a battle. A veteran could be retired.