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During the Dorian Era
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Greece
It was a dark time for learning in the
area we now call Greece
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However…
World History
During the Dorian Era
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People descended from Minoans,
Mycenaeans, etc., stopped relating as
much with their own heritage and
started instead feeling like a new,
unique culture
After the Dorian Era
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POLIS
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GREEK
A city and the surrounding rural area
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ACROPOLIS IN ATHENS
Around 750 BCE these Greeks started
dividing into city-states
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Between 50-500 sq. miles
<10,000 residents
Centered around the acropolis
Forms of Government
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MONARCHY
ARISTOCRACY
OLIGARCHY
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
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Monarchy
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Hereditary
Rule by king or queen
Sometimes they claim divine right
Aristocracy
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Rule by small groups of wealthy nobles
Hereditary based on family connections
Nobles usually own land
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Oligarchy
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Rule by small group of people
Not necessarily nobles by name, though
Powerful for other reasons (rich, lead
strong armies, etc.)
Persian Wars
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Persia stretched from India to Asia
Minor
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Huge land army
Emperor Darius
Often got the land because an ancestor
had served in the king’s military
Direct Democracy
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Directly ruled by citizens
Majority rule
People have a say, but it’s very
cumbersome
499 BCE
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Athens went to the aid of some Greeks
who were living in Asia Minor
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Darius does not appreciate their
interference
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490 BCE-Marathon
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Darius sails across
the Aegean
Sends forces toward
Athens
Athenian army
meets them at
Marathon
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Themistocles warned that the Persians
would come back
Build ships!
City-state… Assemble!!!
On the coast
Battle at Marathon
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They’ll be back…
Persians have 2x as
many men
Persians flee
Pheidippides runs
back to Marathon
480 BCE-Thermopylae
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Darius’ son Xerxes
brings a much larger
force to Greece
Spartan forces meet
them at a mountain
pass
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480 BCE-Thermopylae
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A valiant effort by
the Spartans
Led by King
Leonidas
But Athens is
burned to the
ground
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Thermopylae
480 BCE-Strait of Salamis
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Themistocles sends
a slave disguised as
a traitor to see the
Persian leaders
“The Greeks are
sailing away and
escaping!”
But what of the
Athenian people?
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480 BCE-Strait of Salamis
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It’s totally a trap
Persian ships are
cornered and
rammed by the
Athenian Navy
We are the Chosen Ones!!!
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The Delian League is formed following
the Persian Wars
Meetings held on island of Delos
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