Chapter 5 set 2
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- Pericles
- great general, orator and statesman who held public office or was active in public life
- Representative Democracy
- citizens elect representatives to govern for them
- Ethics
- deals with good and bad and moral duty
- Ephors
- made sure the king stayed within law
- Delian League
- alliance of city-states with Athens as leader
- Sophists
- men who opened schools for older boys
- Rhetoric
- study of oratory or public speaking or debating
- Solon
- settled disputes between creditors and debtors by erasing the debts of the poor and outlawing slavery for debt
- Results of Peloponnesian war
- Greece was politically unstable
- Peloponnesian War
- Wars between Athens and Sparta
- Persian Wars
- Series of conflicts between Greece and Persia untill 479 B.C
- Xerxes
- Persian leader who invaded Greece (son of Darius)
- Draco
- created athen's first written law code
- Battle of Thermoplyae
- A battle between the persians and spartans and the spartans were out numbered greatly
- Macedonia
- An ancient civilization in Greece near the Aegean Sea.
- Pedagogue
- male slave who taught boys manners
- Helots
- the people that were conquered by the invaders
- Sparta
- Powerful Greek city-state that had a powerful military
- Athens
- Powerful city in Ancient Greece that was a leader in arts, sciences, philosophy, democracy and architecture.
- Spartan Government
- two kings: one led army, one took care of household affairs; had a council and assmebly
- Cleisthenes
- seized power in Athens and turned it into a democracy
- Direct Democracy
- all citizens participated directly in making decisions
- Peisistratus
- a tyrant that ruled over Athens that improved the economy but clashed with the nobles
- Terracing
- carving small, flat plots of land from hillsides