Ancient Greece Powerpoint continued....
Today in class we finished taking notes on the ancient Greece PowerPoint. Some of the notes I took were...
- polis: fundamental political unit, made up of a city and the surrounding countryside
- monarchy: rule by a single person (a king, in Greece)
- aristocracy: rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families
- oligarchy: wealthy groups, dissatisfied with the aristocratic rule, who seized power (often with military help)
- tyrant: a powerful individual who seized control by appealing to the common people for support
- During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, aristocrats ran most of Greece
- Aristocrats: members of the ruling class
- the aristocrats would attend meetings called symposiums where the elite men would enjoy wine, poetry, performances by dancers and acrobats, and they were usually accompanied by hetaeras while discussing politics
- there were no women, middle-class people, slaves, or aristocrats who were properly connected or were out favor that were part of Greek politics
- sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites, well-armed soldiers, and set up an alternative form of government called a tyranny
- tyrant: someone who rules outside the framework of the polis
- Draco (621 BCE): under his law, all Athenians (rich or poor) are equal under the law, but death is the punishment for many crimes, and debt slavery was ok (work as a slave to repay debts).
- Solon’s reforms (594 BCE): outlaws had debt slavery, all Athenian citizens (which was a limited group) could speak at the assembly, and any citizen can press charges against wrongdoers.
- Cleisthenes' reforms (around 500 BC): allowed all citizens to submit laws for debate at the assembly, created the Council of Five Hundred (members chosen at random, to counsel the assembly), this leads to democracy later on, but only free adult male property owners born in Athens were considered citizens, women and slaves were not.
After that, class was over.
- polis: fundamental political unit, made up of a city and the surrounding countryside
- monarchy: rule by a single person (a king, in Greece)
- aristocracy: rule by a small group of noble, very rich, landowning families
- oligarchy: wealthy groups, dissatisfied with the aristocratic rule, who seized power (often with military help)
- tyrant: a powerful individual who seized control by appealing to the common people for support
- During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, aristocrats ran most of Greece
- Aristocrats: members of the ruling class
- the aristocrats would attend meetings called symposiums where the elite men would enjoy wine, poetry, performances by dancers and acrobats, and they were usually accompanied by hetaeras while discussing politics
- there were no women, middle-class people, slaves, or aristocrats who were properly connected or were out favor that were part of Greek politics
- sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites, well-armed soldiers, and set up an alternative form of government called a tyranny
- tyrant: someone who rules outside the framework of the polis
- Draco (621 BCE): under his law, all Athenians (rich or poor) are equal under the law, but death is the punishment for many crimes, and debt slavery was ok (work as a slave to repay debts).
- Solon’s reforms (594 BCE): outlaws had debt slavery, all Athenian citizens (which was a limited group) could speak at the assembly, and any citizen can press charges against wrongdoers.
- Cleisthenes' reforms (around 500 BC): allowed all citizens to submit laws for debate at the assembly, created the Council of Five Hundred (members chosen at random, to counsel the assembly), this leads to democracy later on, but only free adult male property owners born in Athens were considered citizens, women and slaves were not.
After that, class was over.
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