Abeka World history and cultures ch. 7.2 vocab
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vacsullivan on October 8, 2011
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Politics of Greece
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Abeka Kids Network, Abeka World History Students
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 First city government | structure of the Greek Family 1 man responsible for worship of gods |
| Monarchy | rule by 1 |
| Council of the Elders and the Assembly | advised the monarch |
| Assembly | mass meeting where all citizens gathered about the king and the elders to discuss politics |
| aristocracy | rule by the best most powerful families |
| aristocrats | thought themselves better then ordinary citizens hereditary made them powerful and wealthy |
| warriors | had to buy horses - equipment for the cavalry only wealthy could do this |
| how to get rich without being noble | trade- new rich Olympian gods became more powerful nobility became less powerful |
| Oligarchy | rule by few (reality- rule by rich) new wealthy participated in Government |
| tyranny | rule by one man who has seized power by rebellion and insurrection won support of common people |
| democracy | rule by the many or the common people when the poor became discontent with tyrant |
| who were citizens | a few hundred men only NO women, slaves and men born outside the city-state |
| list the cycle of government the Greeks kept experiencing | oligarchy tyranny democracy |
| Sparta's classes | ruling class, middle class, helots (slaves) |
| Sparta's oligarchy | ruling class |
| Sparta's middle class | merchants and businessmen some rights some privileges |
| helots | farmed the estates of the ruling class no rights no privileges |
| how did Sparta expand | by conquering its neighbors |
| Spartan education | mainly physical training |
| what all men and women did in Sparta | trained for war |
| Spartan state demanded what | absolute subordination of its citizens |
| what shows that they did not value human life in sparta? | they left weak babies to die on a mountain |
| contribution to world history | NOTHING |
| Peloponnesian League | an alliance with Corinth, Megara and other cities in Peloponnesus |
| Monarchy in Athens | last monarch in 1050 BC |
| archon | chief - ruled for life then later 10 years aristocracy period in Athens |
| Draco's code | written laws in 620 BC so merciless as to have been writing in blood every offense - penalty was death |
| Solon's laws | repealed Draco law, relived debtors, redeemed slaves, ...... gave Attica's freeborn men vote in Assembly created Council of 400 |
| Solon's and the classes | based on income- top 3 levels pay taxes and were soldiers 1. upper class richest only they could become archons |
| Court of Areopagus | met on hill known by that name in Acts 17:19 repealed hurtful laws |
| first tyrants in Athens appeared in.. | 560 BC |
| Peisistratus | nobleman aspiring to office first tyrant in office |
| cleisthenes | new champion of the common people tyrant from the aristocracy played part in athenian deomcracy |
| ostracism | quorum of citizens could vote to banish bad people for 10 years |
| Pericles 461-429 BC | statesman who brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure |
| paid public officials | caused citizens to pay for them common men to seek office |
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