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Here are some notes on today's lesson:
Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, Democracy:
city-states = ruled by kings and their warriors
city developed into large commercials gave more power to majority
city states = narrow and exclusive
they sent citizens to overseas = independent states
Greek City-states :
- Small places, generally consist of no more than a town and a few square miles of countryside.
- Athens and Sparta were giants among city-states
- about the size of a couple US counties
- each only had about a few thousand people
- the Greek city-states were the first to name there people by the Greek word "polites" meaning citizens.
- the male citizens went to war for the Greeks
- they had to pay for the things that they carried into war with them
- such as bronze helmets and armor, round shields, long spears with iron blades, and short iron swords.
- "Alongside Mesopotamia and Egypt there now appeared a third great civilization: that of classical Greece."
Vocab:
Phalanx - A unit of several hundred hoplites, who closed ranks by joining shields when approaching the enemy
Monarchy - A state in which the supreme power is held by a single, usually hereditary ruler (a monarch)
Oligarchy - A state in which supreme power is held by a small group
Triremes - Massive fitting vessels with three banks of oars, used ti ram or board enemy ships
Tyranny - Rule by a self-proclaimed dictator (a tyrant)
Democracy - In ancient Greece, a form of government in which all adult male citizens were entitled to take part on decision making
Helots - Non-citizens forced to work for landholders in the ancient city-state of Sparta
Aristocrats - Members of prominent and long-established Athenian families
Ostracism - Banishment for ten years by majority vote of the Athenian Assembly
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