Athens
... Athens was the most beautiful city in Greece. It grew up at the foot of the high rock known as the Acropolis, which in the earliest times was the citadel that defended the city. The Acropolis had very strong walls, and the main entrance was guarded by nine gates, which must have made it almost impos ...
... Athens was the most beautiful city in Greece. It grew up at the foot of the high rock known as the Acropolis, which in the earliest times was the citadel that defended the city. The Acropolis had very strong walls, and the main entrance was guarded by nine gates, which must have made it almost impos ...
ODYSSEY BOOK 1 QUIZ
... The open area where the assemble met 5) What was the boule? The council – like our cabinet- 500 members (50 from each tribe) who organised the day to day business of the city. They had to be over 30 and were chosen by lot. ...
... The open area where the assemble met 5) What was the boule? The council – like our cabinet- 500 members (50 from each tribe) who organised the day to day business of the city. They had to be over 30 and were chosen by lot. ...
Athens
... randomly. All those citizens willing to serve in a certain office put their names forward, and the winner was chosen rather like we choose lottery numbers. The Greeks considered this the most democratic way of choosing officials, for it ensured that all citizens, whether prominent, popular, rich, or ...
... randomly. All those citizens willing to serve in a certain office put their names forward, and the winner was chosen rather like we choose lottery numbers. The Greeks considered this the most democratic way of choosing officials, for it ensured that all citizens, whether prominent, popular, rich, or ...
Politics Forms of Government
... – Met at least once a week; all citizens could attend, speak in, and vote on laws and decisions ...
... – Met at least once a week; all citizens could attend, speak in, and vote on laws and decisions ...
1.1 Greek Democracy
... • Tyrant= person who gains power by force. Tyranny reduced power of aristocracy who ruled Athens through reforms • Early democracy, council of 500 chosen at random from all citizens, prepare laws for assembly, supervised day to day work • The assembly was all male citizens 30+, they became a true le ...
... • Tyrant= person who gains power by force. Tyranny reduced power of aristocracy who ruled Athens through reforms • Early democracy, council of 500 chosen at random from all citizens, prepare laws for assembly, supervised day to day work • The assembly was all male citizens 30+, they became a true le ...
CA_NTSG_007 - Mira Costa High School
... poor by making reforms that helped these groups. The Athenian tyrant Cleisthenes broadened the role of ordinary citizens in government and set up a genuine legislature. In this way, tyrants moved Athens toward democracy. After winning the Persian Wars, Athens emerged as the most powerful city-state ...
... poor by making reforms that helped these groups. The Athenian tyrant Cleisthenes broadened the role of ordinary citizens in government and set up a genuine legislature. In this way, tyrants moved Athens toward democracy. After winning the Persian Wars, Athens emerged as the most powerful city-state ...
sparta vs. athens
... It was a high hill in the center of Athens. The Parthenon stood there as well as other important buildings and art works. ...
... It was a high hill in the center of Athens. The Parthenon stood there as well as other important buildings and art works. ...
Ancient Greece - Roslyn Schools
... city-states. Because the mountains helped cause political disunity, the first loyalty of the people was not to a larger Greece as a nation but to their own city-state. ...
... city-states. Because the mountains helped cause political disunity, the first loyalty of the people was not to a larger Greece as a nation but to their own city-state. ...
Greek Government 2010
... Wanted to help the poor so he drove wealthy landowners from their land and divided it up among the landless. Placed income tax on the wealthy. Set up employment opportunities for the unemployed. ...
... Wanted to help the poor so he drove wealthy landowners from their land and divided it up among the landless. Placed income tax on the wealthy. Set up employment opportunities for the unemployed. ...
cornelius nepos: vita aristidis
... In 490 B.C. a Persian force landed at Marathon, north-east of Athens. An Athenian messenger ran to Sparta to seek help but the Spartans did not set off immediately. The messenger himself ran back to Athens in time to fight in the battle, in which the Athenians, with Aristides one of the generals, d ...
... In 490 B.C. a Persian force landed at Marathon, north-east of Athens. An Athenian messenger ran to Sparta to seek help but the Spartans did not set off immediately. The messenger himself ran back to Athens in time to fight in the battle, in which the Athenians, with Aristides one of the generals, d ...
The Beginnings of Democracy Democracy as news It is only in this
... The biggest difference between Athenian democracy and almost all subsequent democracies is that the Athenian version was remarkably direct rather than being representative. With a few exceptions, Athenians didn't vote for politicians to represent them; all Athenians voted on just about every law or ...
... The biggest difference between Athenian democracy and almost all subsequent democracies is that the Athenian version was remarkably direct rather than being representative. With a few exceptions, Athenians didn't vote for politicians to represent them; all Athenians voted on just about every law or ...
Directions - Baltimore City Public Schools
... reward our most distinguished citizens by asking them to make our political decisions. Nor do we discriminate against the poor. A man may serve his country no matter how low his position on the social scale. An Athenian citizen does not put his private affairs before the affairs of the state; even o ...
... reward our most distinguished citizens by asking them to make our political decisions. Nor do we discriminate against the poor. A man may serve his country no matter how low his position on the social scale. An Athenian citizen does not put his private affairs before the affairs of the state; even o ...
Civ IA- text from PP 7-8 Lecture 7- Becoming Greek The Iron Age (c
... Athenians: “Because you would have the advantage of submitting before suffering the worst, and we should gain by not destroying you.” Melians: “So you would not consent to our being neutral, friends instead of enemies, but allies of ...
... Athenians: “Because you would have the advantage of submitting before suffering the worst, and we should gain by not destroying you.” Melians: “So you would not consent to our being neutral, friends instead of enemies, but allies of ...
File
... outlawed debt slavery. He organized all Athenian citizens into four social classes according to wealth. Only members of the top three classes could hold political office. However, all citizens, regardless of class, could participate in the Athenian assembly. Solon also introduced the legal concept t ...
... outlawed debt slavery. He organized all Athenian citizens into four social classes according to wealth. Only members of the top three classes could hold political office. However, all citizens, regardless of class, could participate in the Athenian assembly. Solon also introduced the legal concept t ...
Greece Notes 3 Key - St. Charles Parish Public Schools
... Boys left home at the age of 7 to begin their training for war They didn’t return home until they were 30. War. ...
... Boys left home at the age of 7 to begin their training for war They didn’t return home until they were 30. War. ...
Section 3 Quiz
... A. Terms, People, and Places Fill in the blank in each sentence with the letter of a word, name, or phrase from the box. Not all the choices in the box will be used. Each answer can be used only once. 1. In a , citizens take part in day-to-day governmental affairs. 2. Athens paid a , or fixed salary ...
... A. Terms, People, and Places Fill in the blank in each sentence with the letter of a word, name, or phrase from the box. Not all the choices in the box will be used. Each answer can be used only once. 1. In a , citizens take part in day-to-day governmental affairs. 2. Athens paid a , or fixed salary ...
Constitution of Athens
... (U.S. President: 2 4-year terms); Broadening participation: notables may have initially dominated, but term limit expanded the number of citizens needed to serve; Citizens from all of Athens now included, not just urban elite; Mode of selection unknown—either election or selection by lot (sort ...
... (U.S. President: 2 4-year terms); Broadening participation: notables may have initially dominated, but term limit expanded the number of citizens needed to serve; Citizens from all of Athens now included, not just urban elite; Mode of selection unknown—either election or selection by lot (sort ...
Chapter 4
... was also the instrument that made Athens rich by extracting tribute from its empire. So just how starry eyed should we be about the city that gave us the Acropolis, Socrates and Plato? If we are to believe the man who presided over the golden age of Athens, Pericles, then the place and the way it wa ...
... was also the instrument that made Athens rich by extracting tribute from its empire. So just how starry eyed should we be about the city that gave us the Acropolis, Socrates and Plato? If we are to believe the man who presided over the golden age of Athens, Pericles, then the place and the way it wa ...
DBQ: Athenian Democracy
... of a rude unbridled mob. The tyrant, in all his doings, at least knows what is he about, but a mob is altogether devoid of knowledge; for how should there be any knowledge in a rabble, untaught, and with no natural sense of what is right and fit? […] let us choose out from the citizens a certain num ...
... of a rude unbridled mob. The tyrant, in all his doings, at least knows what is he about, but a mob is altogether devoid of knowledge; for how should there be any knowledge in a rabble, untaught, and with no natural sense of what is right and fit? […] let us choose out from the citizens a certain num ...
Ancient Greece
... refused. At home slaves and women had no vote, which prompted the comic play writer Aristophanes to allow his women to express their exasperation with the system, but if you were an Athenian citizen you took part in a direct democracy. The world has not seen the like of it since. Everyone could turn ...
... refused. At home slaves and women had no vote, which prompted the comic play writer Aristophanes to allow his women to express their exasperation with the system, but if you were an Athenian citizen you took part in a direct democracy. The world has not seen the like of it since. Everyone could turn ...
460 B.C Beginning of Democracy Greece
... process. Demokratia abolished the political decision making process. A Greek historian Herodotus had written ,“In a Democracy, there is, first, that most splendid of virtues, equality before the law.” The th “equality” Herodotus described was for a small amount of Athenian people. In the 4 cent ...
... process. Demokratia abolished the political decision making process. A Greek historian Herodotus had written ,“In a Democracy, there is, first, that most splendid of virtues, equality before the law.” The th “equality” Herodotus described was for a small amount of Athenian people. In the 4 cent ...
4-3 Athens and Sparta (Part 2) screencast sheet
... • The situation created violence and social chaos that ultimately toppled the power of the aristocracy • In their place, ___________ took power over the city. A tyrant is someone who ________________ ____________________________________________________________________. • Four successive tyrants rule ...
... • The situation created violence and social chaos that ultimately toppled the power of the aristocracy • In their place, ___________ took power over the city. A tyrant is someone who ________________ ____________________________________________________________________. • Four successive tyrants rule ...
slides
... 499 BC Aristagoras of Miletos stirs up rebellion in Ionia. Rebuffed by Kleomenes of Sparta, but gets aid from Athens and Eretria 494 BC Darius’ Persians raze Miletos. End of Ionian Revolt “Do not forget the Athenians.” ...
... 499 BC Aristagoras of Miletos stirs up rebellion in Ionia. Rebuffed by Kleomenes of Sparta, but gets aid from Athens and Eretria 494 BC Darius’ Persians raze Miletos. End of Ionian Revolt “Do not forget the Athenians.” ...
Ancient Greece: The Development of Athenian Democracy
... Cleisthenes: Came to power in 508 BC. In 507 BC Cleisthenes introduced a new constitution that made the Assembly the major political body. All citizens could belong to the Assembly, where they were considered equal before the law and guaranteed the freedom of speech. ...
... Cleisthenes: Came to power in 508 BC. In 507 BC Cleisthenes introduced a new constitution that made the Assembly the major political body. All citizens could belong to the Assembly, where they were considered equal before the law and guaranteed the freedom of speech. ...