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- Areopagus
- retired archons, sweaty
- Peloponnese
- Big island of Athens
- Archons
- Basileus, Eponymous, Polemarch
- Mycenaean
- Lived on Peloponnese, Palatial, Illiad/Odyssey take place, Linear B
- Solon
- Great Civilizer, abolished citizen slaver, cancelled all debts for fresh start, left for ten years cuz everyone hated him: Seisachthei (shake the burden): Divides Society into 4 Different Classes
- Aristocracy
- rule by birth
- Helots
- Slaves
- Solonian Reforms
- 4 classes- 500 bushel class.300.200.Thetes: High Offices 300-500, lower offices 200, Council of 400, created popular courts
- Hoplite
- Helmet, Sheild Spear
- Delphi
- Temple of Apollo, Panhellenic worship
- Olympia
- Temple of Zeus, Panhellenic worship
- Peisistratus
- tried 3 times to overthrow, eventually did, travelling judges, has sons: hippias & hipparchus sparta comes and overthrows sons
- Apollo
- God of light, rational thinking
- Kleisthenes
- Divides Athens into 3 areas: Coast, city, inland, split up 4 tribes into 10, Council of 500, Ostracism- needed 6000 to be ostracized for 10 years
- Aegean
- Connects Greece to Asia Minor
- Pausanius
- Temple Descriptions
- Hesiod
- writes the gods family tree and first philosophicle work (Work and Days)
- Herodotus
- Describes Persian War
- Polis (City-State) characteristics
- urban center surrounded by territory, Autonmous government, Akropolis(high point used as refuge), Class: citizens- men only; foreigners-permanent residents; slaves
- Olympic Games
- Truce during games
- 1st Persian War
- Battle of Marathon, Darius (Persians lose)
- Oligarchy
- Based on wealth
- Attica
- Surrounding Territory of Athens
- 2nd Persian War
- Xerxes: Battle of Thermopylai(Greeks Lose), Battle of Salamis, Battle of Plataia
- Greek Religion
- descriptive (shows people making mistakes) not prescriptive ( tell how people should be)
- Pericles
- payment for public works
- Cylon (Cylonian Affair)
- Olympic Victor, attempts to overthrow Aristocracy and becom tyrant, goes to Delphi- oracle tells him to do it at the Festival of Zeus thinks it's Olympics but was wrong, Athenian people storm Akropolis, his followers become supplicates, and they are killed
- Sparta
- Lakonia(Area Around, 2 Kings, Dyarchy, Xenophobic, 28 Elders(Gerousia)>5 Ephors>Warriors Assembly,Spartan Citizens= Spartan Equals
- Pelops
- Beat a king with invincible horses in a race
- Draco
- Homicide Laws
- Ephialtes
- gets rid of Areopagos
- Macedonia
- North Greece
- Archaic period
- Alphabet-1 letter 1 sound: greeks added vowels: write down laws, Polis formed, Olympic Games, Homeric Epics standardized
- Minoans
- Lived on Crete, Palatial, Farming, trade, Linear A
- Theseus
- Athen king, made synoikism-city center of power,
- Thucydides
- Describes Peloponnesian Wars
- Hubris
- arrogance, challenge sphere of Gods
- Government of Polis
- Moderate Kingship>Aristocracy>Oligarch... Tyranny in between
- Battle of Salamis
- Thermistocles takes all of Athens to Salamis, Win big naval battle